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any query for alter query for adding description for a column in a table
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[no name] 17-Oct-13 2:29am    
Can you be more clear..??
Tom Marvolo Riddle 17-Oct-13 2:36am    
Want to add a column named description?
aravindnass 17-Oct-13 2:59am    
noo..I want add description on a column
ArunRajendra 17-Oct-13 2:40am    
Are you facing any problem while using "alter table add column" statement?
aravindnass 17-Oct-13 3:00am    
I want a query for add description on a column

1 solution

You can use
SQL
sys.sp_addextendedproperty

SQL
EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty
  @name=N'MS_Description'
 ,@value=N'Here is my description!'  --<<<<
 ,@level0type=N'SCHEMA'
 ,@level0name=N'dbo'
 ,@level1type=N'TABLE'
 ,@level1name=N'TABLE_NAME' --<<<<
 ,@level2type=N'COLUMN'
 ,@level2name=N'FIELD_NAME'  --<<<<

for more information look at this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180047.aspx[^]
 
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