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Re: Changing data-types

Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 09/04/07 17:27

This should work, but note it'll take awhile and your DB may be unavailable
during that time.



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"Danny" <adler.danny@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1188918798.881371.235040@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I have a varchar(255) column for storing text in english and in
> hebrew.
> It was a stupid mistake to set the data type to be varchar, because
> now I need to store text in german and francais too.
>
> Question: Is it safe to change the data type from varchar to nvarchar,
> without damaging the data that's already present?
> (I have more than 1000000 records stored...)
>
> Thanks,
> Danny
>

 

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