Change field size

SQL 2005
I have a table with a number of nvarchar fields. One field in the midde was
1000 in length. I ran a query with:
ALTER TableName
ALTER ColumnName nvarchar(2000).
This apeared to increase the field size to 2000 (as seen in Server
Management Studio), but it will still not store any more than 1000 characters.
Have I done it incorrectly.
There appears to be still space in my record as I can add a field at the end
2000 long and that works correctly.
Thanks,
Steve.Why do you say it only stores 1000 characters? Is it because what you are
seeing when you select it? If so then change the max size of the columns
characters returned in the options menu to support more. What does
MAX(DATALEN(YourColumn)) say for that column?
--
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
Solid Quality Mentors
"Sawlmgsj" <Sawlmgsj@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> SQL 2005
> I have a table with a number of nvarchar fields. One field in the midde
> was
> 1000 in length. I ran a query with:
> ALTER TableName
> ALTER ColumnName nvarchar(2000).
> This apeared to increase the field size to 2000 (as seen in Server
> Management Studio), but it will still not store any more than 1000
> characters.
> Have I done it incorrectly.
> There appears to be still space in my record as I can add a field at the
> end
> 2000 long and that works correctly.
> Thanks,
> Steve.
>|||Andrew - many thanks for your reply. That got me thinking and I checked the
(Delplhi) component I am using to link. It had field definitions in it and I
had forgotten to refresh it. Did that and now all is working correctly.
Thanks,
Steve.
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
> Why do you say it only stores 1000 characters? Is it because what you are
> seeing when you select it? If so then change the max size of the columns
> characters returned in the options menu to support more. What does
> MAX(DATALEN(YourColumn)) say for that column?
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> Solid Quality Mentors
>
> "Sawlmgsj" <Sawlmgsj@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1F7CC5B5-47B9-41B4-BD89-14263656BC0E@.microsoft.com...
> > SQL 2005
> >
> > I have a table with a number of nvarchar fields. One field in the midde
> > was
> > 1000 in length. I ran a query with:
> >
> > ALTER TableName
> > ALTER ColumnName nvarchar(2000).
> >
> > This apeared to increase the field size to 2000 (as seen in Server
> > Management Studio), but it will still not store any more than 1000
> > characters.
> >
> > Have I done it incorrectly.
> >
> > There appears to be still space in my record as I can add a field at the
> > end
> > 2000 long and that works correctly.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve.
> >
>