Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/29/06 22:41

Hugo Kornelis (hugo@perFact.REMOVETHIS.info.INVALID) writes:
> That depends on what is in the script. There is no length limit that I
> know of (there probably is SOME length limit, but so sky high that
> you'll never get to it for normal work). But there are some statements
> that have to run in a seperate batch.

And there are other statements that cannot be in the same batch, for
instance:

ALTER TABLE tbl ADD somenewcol int
UPDATE tbl SET somenewcol = 4711

This will fail to compile, since the new column does not exist when the
batch is compiled.

But this can be dealt with by putting such statments in EXEC().


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