Wednesday, July 22, 2015

How to rename and/or modify table column in SQL Server

Column rename is done using sp_rename stored procedure:
sp_RENAME '<tableName>.<oldColumnName>' , '<newColumnName>', 'COLUMN'

And column data type and/or nullability is modified the following way:
ALTER TABLE <schemaName>.<tableName>
ALTER COLUMN <columnName> nvarchar(200) [NULL|NOT NULL];

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