>2. Copy structure Extended, then create similar table with another name in the database, copy data by COPY command, then delete old table. I know this could be slow, but I guess you do not going to do such things every day in production database...
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Vlad, I did exactly 2
What I had, I have big number of databases with big numbers of tables.
They have casual code pages.
I needed to put all wrong code pages into 1251 by program
I do it in 3 steps
open table, check for code page, if it is not 1251
I use copy to newtempname name newtempname with cdx as 1251
drop oldtable
rename newtempname to oldtable
Validate is not clue, because when we do rename in the database designer by hands, we don't do validate
When I open database container like table and look there, it still have
old file name there, but new table name
I pretty shure , that copy structure is not clue too, becase it also require
data copy from one table into new one, but rename in database designer works fast and obvious does not copy data for big table
So, it must be direct analog of rename in the database designer and it must be simple enough
Vladimir