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Login to reply. November 10, at pm Hello My friend This is my first post here and i hope to find a solution for this really nasty problem. Flags, a. MessageID, a. Topic, a. Message, a. UserID, a. Position, a. Indent, a. IP, a. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. This is the place for advice and discussions 0 0.

Sign in to vote. Please help Thank you. Thursday, February 21, AM. I really don't now. Sorry I don't have a better solution. Thank You. I hope this helps you out. Adding the constraint after creating the table, the existing data will be checked for the constraint rule before creating that constraint. There are six main constraints that are commonly used in SQL Server that we will describe deeply with examples within this article and the next one.

These constraints are:. Let us start discussing each one of these SQL Server constraints with a brief description and practical demo. By default, the columns are able to hold NULL values. This table contains only two columns, ID and Name. If the null-ability is not specified while defining the column, it will accept the NULL value by default:.

The last insert operation will fail, as we only provide the INSERT statement with a value for the Name column, without providing value for the ID column that is mandatory and cannot be assigned NULL value, as shown in the error message below:. Is that an option? There does not appear to be any way to alter a column to include dropping the default constraint without turning off the merge replication, making the alteration, then turning it back on.

Unfortunately, turning the replication off and on is not trivial. It can be scripted easily enough but it takes several hours to regenerate the snapshot and all of that work must be done when the users are not around i. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.