With ALTER TABLE changing the type from SmallDateTime to Date was simply a second. The nice thing is that SQL Server simply truncated the time portion and left the date portion in the Date field. Now I just need to change all my UI controls to use Date instead of DateTime.
>Yes, SSMS Table Designer as a generic tool may generate scripts that unnecessarily require table to be dropped and recreated.
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