James, I had my problems with that too. You have got to take JET SQL for Access. An excellent article lerning the right commands you can find at: http://www.citilink.com/~jgarrick/vbasic/database/jetsql.html
Uwe -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: James Sleeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 07:54 An: CF-Talk Betreff: ALTER TABLE in access Hi all, I have a number of sites in the field running off of some shared code but independent access databases for each. Anyway, I have just realised that one field, in the database schema is slightly smaller than it should be and could cause problems at some stage (not a serious one, but still) namely because it's a primary key UUID which is now being truncated to only 25 characters (why I thought a UUID was 25 characters I don't know). Anyway I don't really want to have to bring down each database and modify the length of this field. All the sites run off of the same code, it would be a trivial matter for me to throw a check in there to see if the database has a correct field length and run a query if it doesn't the next time a site administrator checks their admin area. However it looks like Access can't do this from SQL. Normally (in a real man's database engine :-)) I'd do something like ALTER TABLE ALTER Column PrID VARCHAR(45) but Access doesn't want to play ball. Anybody know a way of doing this ? ---------- James Sleeman Innovative Media Ltd Phone: (03) 377 6262 http://www.websolutions.co.nz/ CAUTION: The information contained in this email message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and any attachments. Views expressed in this communication may not be those of Innovative Media Ltd. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
