The columns in my table are currently “text”, I need to change them to “text collate nocase”. How would I go about doing this without losing data?
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The columns in my table are currently “text”, I need to change them to “text collate nocase”. How would I go about doing this without losing data?
Just run an
ALTER TABLEcommand on the column. You should not lose data, but test first.Check out the docs for the exact syntax;