Bruce Sorge wrote: > I am running this simple alter table statement: > > ALTER TABLE tblCurrentCouncilMembers ALTER COLUMN Member_ID int NOT NULL > > And the error I get is: > > Server: Msg 515, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 > Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Member_ID', table > 'DONE_WEB.dbo.tblcurrentCouncilMembers'; column does not allow nulls. UPDATE > fails. > The statement has been terminated. > > So can I not do this? When I run this via the database designer, I get the > message about a catastrophic failure. This is a dev SQL Server box. >
What do you get when you run: SELECT * FROM tblCurrentCouncilMembers WHERE Member_ID IS NULL If it returns anything, then you need to take care of those NULLs before running the ALTER. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/SQL/message.cfm/messageid:2807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/SQL/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.6
