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Scripting schema updates in MSSQL #1 (See related posts)

This SQL statement will alter a table only if a column in the table to be altered does NOT contain a column named 'FavoriteColorId'.

From: http://haacked.com/

IF NOT EXISTS
(
    SELECT * FROM [information_schema].[columns]
    WHERE    table_name   = 'Customer'
    AND      table_schema = 'dbo'
    AND      column_name  = 'FavoriteColorId'
)
BEGIN
    ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Customer]
    ADD FavoriteColorId int

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chrelad posts on Aug 08, 2007 at 19:46
If anyone knows how to retrieve a column description from a MSSQL database, please post... It would be extremely helpful.

Thanks in advance!

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