Hi Diane,

Curious - why do you want to monkey around with tables in the Master database - I never touch it - and I don't think it's recommended.

>Hi everyones,
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>I want to add a column in master.sysusers In query analyser, I used this syntax:
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>alter table sysusers add suid as smallint
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>and I got this error:
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>Server: Msg 1706, Level 16, State 4, Line 1
>System table 'sysusers' was not created, because ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not enabled.
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>What can I do?
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>It's a one shot deal, I want to do it only once. I need this because I run an old application design for SQL7 on a SQL2000 and in SQL7, the column suid existed. I don't care about the value itself, I can fill it in manually once it's created.
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>TIA,
>Diane Robitaille eng.