Posted by Razvan Socol on 01/11/07 15:41

Barry wrote:
> In sqlserver 2000 I have a UDF which works fine but I want to make a
> change to it. When I do an ALTER FUNCTION ... I get an error saying
> that I can't alter the function because it is referenced by an object.
> Is there any way around this? I reference the UDF in over 100 tables,
> do I have to go to each table, remove the all references alter the
> function then edit each 100 tables again? How clumsy can it be?

Yep, that's it. You can generate a script for the drop/recreate of the
objects that reference the function, using the information from the
system tables. What kind of objects are we talking about
(defaults/check constraints/computed columns) ?

Razvan

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