>>Then, before they put handcuffs on me for violating the forum etiquette <g>, quick question. In order to change the column in SQL Server from char to bit and not to lose the existing values, I would have to create a temp column to hold the values, right?
>
>Yep,
>Something like this (NOT TESTED!!!!)
>
>ALTER TABLE TableName ADD TempColumn bit NULL
>GO
>UPDATE TableName SET TempColumn = CASE WHEN TheCharColumn = 'A'
> THEN 1
> WHEN TheCharColumn = 'I'
> THEN 0
> ELSE NULL END
>GO
>ALTER TABLE TableName DROP COLUMN TheCharColumn
>GO
>EXEC sp_rename @objname = 'TableName.TempColumn', @newname = 'TheCharColumn', @objtype = 'COLUMN'
>GO
>
>AGAIN!!!
>NOT TESTED!
>Just have a pretty good backup first!
Thank you very much, Borislav.
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