Hi,


say I have a column in a table PERSON defined as

NAME VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL

and want to redefine it to

NAME VARCHAR(100)

since this means relaxing the requirements, I would assume that it should work even when data is in the table.

I tried

ALTER TABLE PERSON MODIFY(NAME VARCHAR(100))

which did not change anything and did not give an error message

Then I tried updating the definition of the column using SQLStudio which allowed me to perform the exact same manipulation using the GUI.

Now my question is, what exactly happens behind the scenes when I use SQLStudio for that purpose. Is it doing something I can also do manually using SQL?

Thanks,

Robert




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