>>The column had the DEFAULT set before I made the change of the column size. And I do prefer not to change the default. Do I understand correctly that the DEFAULT will stay the way it was before I change the size?
>>Thank you.
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>In earlier versions of SQL Server I always got "Can not ALTER ... there is a constraint' something like this (can't remember the exact text).
>That is why I have this habit to remove default constraint, change the size and put the constraint back.
>Maybe MS changed this behavior lately and there is no more error, I don't know.
Thank you for clarifying this point. Say, I have to remove the Default constraint before setting the new column size, how do I find out if the Column has a Default Constraint? And how would you remove it?
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