Comments on: SQL SERVER – Change Order of Column In Database Tables

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:48:27 +0000

@alendra,
Please read the article, there is no such query.

Regards,
Pinal

By: alendra

alendra — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:19:39 +0000

what is the query for that changing the order of columns in a table

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:42:12 +0000

One shouldn’t really change the order too often

I remember when we had to swap Latitude & Longitude columns, it was a mess, so we just ended up renaming the column names.
It’s weird to see column1, Longitude, Latitude, column2 order though

SSMS sucks because it creates a TEMP table
copy everything from old table to TEMP
then rename TEMP table to your old table name
It ALWAYS times out if there is a lot of data

Do it in SQL Scripts

By: suba ganesh

suba ganesh — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:46:29 +0000

wats the query for that ‘changing the order of columns in a table’

By: ob

ob — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:53:25 +0000

When I add new column in Management Studio, my change times out after about one minute. How to prevent it?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:24:32 +0000

Thanks for the post. I thought it was a good question. I personally like to have a rhythm and reason to the order of columns, especially when printing out a diagram of the database. I wish there was a better way of doing it instead of locking the table or creating a new table and deleting the old. Thanks for the posts.