|  | 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
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 > 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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