How would I create a single script that would do an alter table on every table in a database (over 100) changing the datatype of every column that is char(36) to uniqueidentifier?
I'm thinking sp_msforeachtable but the logic after than is based on a columns data type ...
And while I'm asking, then make every column named cid ( and uniqueidentifier) the PK
(okay that one may be able to do with sp_msforeachtable)
(this is part of a conversion of VFP/VFE data and is going to possibly be needed if I can't figure out how to hack the Sedna upsizer to recognize C(36) NOCPTRANS as a uniqueidentifier.
( And yes, I probably will explore grabbing the data from the SQL side with SSIS but I'm not sure that will be any easier - isn't there an issue with memo fields?)
TSQL gurus, your help appreciated.
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