Thans for the help with the "Alter Huge Table" It was sweet of you to drop a complete test script,

I will do the output for 2008 today night. but here is 2005 sp2 output.

Please find the same. i would be realy helpfull to know why it happens differently in 2008 compared to 2005.

And also i would realy like to locate where is 200.80 now gone.