Adv. Systems Design pressed the little lettered thingies in this order...
> hello *:
>
> I have initially set a field named title to be
> varchar(50)...I am finding that it is not long
> enough...can I change the size without adversely
> affecting existing data?
>
ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE field_name field_name
new_attributes.
For a table called "tbl" and a field called "fld" use:
ALTER TABLE tbl CHANGE fld fld VARCHAR(100)
Increasing the length of the field has no adverse affect.
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