Change Datafield Length for all Table

in myDatabase, over 50 tables.
Every table got the field 'userid' , Now I need to change the field length
from char(10) to char(15)
How Can I do that ? Any simple and fast way to do '
Thanks for your kind help> in myDatabase, over 50 tables.
> Every table got the field 'userid' , Now I need to change the field length
> from char(10) to char(15)
> How Can I do that ? Any simple and fast way to do '
You could create a cursor, loop though your tables and dynamically
concatenate the ALTER TABLE string and execute it with the EXECUTE
statement. Unfortunately I don't see any other shortcut.
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Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP
Associate Mentor
www.SolidQualityLearning.com|||Also you can use undocumented SP sp_Msforeachtable 'your_command [?]', it
executes supplied command on each table in your DB, (it is similar to the
cursor on each table).
"Dejan Sarka" wrote:
> > in myDatabase, over 50 tables.
> > Every table got the field 'userid' , Now I need to change the field length
> > from char(10) to char(15)
> > How Can I do that ? Any simple and fast way to do '
> You could create a cursor, loop though your tables and dynamically
> concatenate the ALTER TABLE string and execute it with the EXECUTE
> statement. Unfortunately I don't see any other shortcut.
> --
> Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP
> Associate Mentor
> www.SolidQualityLearning.com
>
>