Thank you for explaining what was missing in my expression.
>if you do Textmerge you need to realize that the string is parsed literally. Therefore the correct usage of inline Textmerge would be:
>
>ALTER TABLE <<tcTableName>> ALTER COLUMN <<tcFieldName>> varchar(max) <<iif(tlNull, 'NOT NULL', 'NULL')>>
>
>
>>UPDATE. Found solution. Simply store the value into a variable.
>>
>>cNullValue = 'NOT NULL'
>>ALTER TABLE <<tcTableName>> ALTER COLUMN <<tcFieldName>> varchar(max) <<cNullValue>>
>>
>>Works.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I created a procedure in my VFP 9 program that changes the column of the SQL Server DB from Text to Varchar(max) (Thanks to Borislav Borissov!). It works.
>>I am trying to make this procedure more generic so that it receives a parameter indicating if the column should allow NULL or not.
>>Instead of writing two scripts, I would like to incorporate the passed parameter into the VFP code. Here is the snippet of the code:
>>
>>lparameter tlNull
>>ALTER TABLE <<tcTableName>> ALTER COLUMN <<tcFieldName>> varchar(max) NOT NULL
>>
>>The code above is for NOT NULL only. How do I change the NOT NULL to use the Parameter tlNull?
>>
>>This is what I tried:
>>
>>ALTER TABLE <<tcTableName>> ALTER COLUMN <<tcFieldName>> varchar(max) <<iif(tlNull, NOT NULL, NULL)>>
>>
>>
>>But the above produces NULL with two periods, one before and one after. Why?
>>
>>TIA
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