Changing the size of a column referenced by a schema-bound view in SQL Server

Question

ALTER TABLE [table_name] ALTER COLUMN [column_name] varchar(150)

The views are probably created using the WITH SCHEMABINDING option and this means they are explicitly wired up to prevent such changes. Looks like the schemabinding worked and prevented you from breaking those views, lucky day, heh? Contact your database administrator and ask him to do the change, after it asserts the impact on the database.

From MSDN:

SCHEMABINDING

Binds the view to the schema of the underlying table or tables. When SCHEMABINDING is specified, the base table or tables cannot be modified in a way that would affect the view definition. The view definition itself must first be modified or dropped to remove dependencies on the table that is to be modified.

If anyone wants to "Increase the column width of the replicated table" in SQL Server 2008, then no need to change the property of "replicate_ddl=1". Simply follow below steps --

1. Open SSMS
2. Connect to Publisher database
3. run command -- ALTER TABLE [Table_Name] ALTER COLUMN [Column_Name] varchar(22)
4. It will increase the column width from varchar(x) to varchar(22) and same change you can see on subscriber (transaction got replicated). So no need to re-initialize the replication

Hope this will help all who are looking for it.

See this link

Resize or Modify a MS SQL Server Table Column with Default Constraint using T-SQL Commands

the solution for such a SQL Server problem is going to be

Dropping or disabling the DEFAULT Constraint on the table column.

Modifying the table column data type and/or data size.

Re-creating or enabling the default constraint back on the sql table column.

Bye

here is what works with the version of the program that I'm using: may work for you too.

I will just place the instruction and command that does it. class is the name of the table. you change it in the table its self with this method. not just the return on the search process.

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view the table class

select * from class

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change the length of the columns FacID (seen as "faci") and classnumber (seen as "classnu") to fit the whole labels.

alter table class modify facid varchar (5);

alter table class modify classnumber varchar(11);

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view table again to see the difference

select * from class;

(run the command again to see the difference)

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This changes the the actual table for good, but for better.

P.S. I made these instructions up as a note for the commands. This is not a test, but can help on one :)