Comments on: SQL SERVER – Fix : Management Studio Error : Saving Changes in not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can’t be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes that require the table to be re-created

By: Leonard

Leonard — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:00:18 +0000

Great! This was such a help. I was tired of deleting the table and recreating a new one every time I needed to add or change a column.

By: Anis

Anis — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:43:14 +0000

Thanks !

By: eddie

eddie — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:18:11 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:07:06 +0000

Thank you.

By: Boyd White

Boyd White — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:27:16 +0000

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By: Muraleekrishnan

Muraleekrishnan — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:29:57 +0000

Thank You Very Much.This is very helpful

By: Mahir

Mahir — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:14:20 +0000

Thank you….. great sql developerr….

By: A

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:30:30 +0000

Thank you very much.
It’s a great solution.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:14:11 +0000

I’ve read similar posts on a dozen different websites, but none are addressing the most important concern.

I need to add a column to a table contain a few million rows. After testing this solution on a test database, I find that it only takes about 30 seconds to complete; not a big deal.

So is this safe to do on a production table after hours?

Is there any risk of losing data of any kind (table data, constraints, stats, indexes)?

I guess I don’t understand why MS locks you out in the first place. Is it solely because of the potential of hanging a production database for a long period of time (because its such an extensive operation)?

Thanks for any insight!

By: Yathini

Yathini — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:24:43 +0000

Thanks a lot….

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:12:41 +0000

Thanks for the great info and explanation! The process might demand some resources but it avoids human mistakes an makes life much easier. Great post!

By: Ehab

Ehab — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:37:45 +0000

Thanks For this work
really good work

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:52:27 +0000

Thanks. This is was very helpful

By: Ross Mistry

Ross Mistry — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:53:27 +0000

Thanks Boss – Very Helpful. Stumped the chumps

By: Srinu

Srinu — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:26:42 +0000

Thanks. This is was very helpful

By: noname

noname — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:05:11 +0000

oops, my option didn’t show designers so i couldn’t uncheck it. my studio is 2008 on window 2003

By: Ranga

Ranga — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:33:58 +0000

Thanks a lot. this is helpfull

By: William Plander

William Plander — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:53:54 +0000

Sorry Boss, but I have to disagree with you on this one.

Unless this is a one man shop, the developer isn’t making the change on the production server, it’s on the dev system.
Then the staging and production servers should be scripted using some form of automation, not by hand.

As far as scripts versus design, I’m thinking there’s a much greater margin of error cut-n-pasting and eye-balling scripts than getting it right the first time in the designer.

(plus…let the developer improve at their own expense….not the company’s [snicker])

By: Thanks

Thanks — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:34:05 +0000

Thanks thisis useful

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:59:44 +0000

thank you! was getting tired of manually re-creating (copy/paste of columns), saving, deleting prior and renaming new.

By: amina khan

amina khan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:02:36 +0000

thnks alot:)

By: dreamerboy88

dreamerboy88 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:12:58 +0000

thanks very much for that

By: Faisal Khan

Faisal Khan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:07:09 +0000

Good job.

By: ramdas

ramdas — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:56:28 +0000

Hi Pinal,
Thanks for the useful tip, I shared it with my folks here. Kept looking when i got the error as to why it was happening. Now i get it. Currently working on SSRS 2008, great product, especially Report Builder 2.0 is a very powerful for the analysts, the charts especially are very professional looking.