Showing posts with label nvarchar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nvarchar. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Editing User Defined Data type

Is there an easy way to edit an existing User Defined Data type ? For instance i have a custom data type address of base type nvarchar with a length of 40, I want to increase this custom data types length to 50, is there a way to do it or is it even supported?

The SQL Server 2005 Mangement Studio does not allow you do it..is there a work around for this?

Thanks,

Krishna

There is no easy way to do this without dropping and recreating the user-defined data type. You can do this via TSQL. I do not know about the GUI. You might want to ask this question in the SQL Server Tools forum.|||

Thanks, its the same with GUI, its not editable, it just allows us to either delete them and re-create them. Also before deleting them it makes us to remove all references, so its a bit of work..

Regards,

Krishna