Matt

Matt Bowler is a DBA at Trade Me, and teaches database design and administration courses at the local institute of technology. A recent but avid discoverer of SQL Server, Matt is a regular contributor to forums at MSDN, Experts Exchange and SSC and he blogs at mattsql.wordpress.com.

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Column Adds and Drops

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Question of the Day

Column Adds and Drops

I run this batch on SQL Server 2022. What happens? 

ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts
 ADD AccountAccessType INT
GO
ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts
 DROP AccountAccessType
GO

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