Question

I would like to change the type of a table’s column in a SQL Server Compact Edition database, but it seems that the statement

ALTER TABLE [table name] modify [column name] [new type]

isn’t working (VS2010 gave me the error : “The ALTER TABLE SQL construct or statement is not supported.”).

My original type is INT and I would like to change it to a BIGINT.

Is it completely unsupported by SQL Server CE or do I have to execute another kind of query ?

Answer 1

Seems in fact that Visual Studio was the origin of my problem, by using CompactView program, the query

ALTER TABLE [table name] ALTER COLUMN [column name] [new type]

worked and solved my problem. 🙂
Thanks a lot for your help !