Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Format level identifiers on SQL tables?

On 4/20/2016 3:20 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

In general, anything that changes the length or position of any fields in
the record format used by the program requires that the program be
recompiled.

Yep, that's what I thought too ... but it appears a columns default value effects it too.

I created a test table with the following SQL:

CREATE TABLE DEVDMGWRK/TEST1 (FIELD1 CHAR ( 10) NOT NULL WITH
DEFAULT 'ABC', FIELD2 CHAR ( 10) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT)

The format level identifier on the table is '1E0C965CBDD7E'.

I then dropped the default from FIELD1

ALTER TABLE DEVDMGWRK/TEST1 ALTER COLUMN FIELD1 DROP default

Now the format level identifier is '1E0C9664BDD7E'.

It seems to me that the default value of a field should have nothing to do with the format of the file, just its contents.

david