I just went into Alter Table to change the length of an nvarchar column. I made the change to the length in the GUI, then went to the SQL Script tab and get the "-- No Changes Detected" message. [image] [image] I manually wrote the following which Alter Table should have created: ALTER TABLE …

Hi Michael, I just tried the same steps and Toad generated the script with the updated nvarchar new length. You should have to manually write the script. Could you let us know the version of your Toad and database. Thanks. [2026-07-06_13-27-37] [2026-07-06_13-27-47]

@Gita.Sharifi : I am running Toad for SQL Server DevSuite 26.2.0.44257 (64 bit). SQL Server is Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8. It looks like version number is pretty useless when running on Azure: [image] Additionally I have tried several other changes to existing Columns in a table a…

Thanks Michael for the additional details. I'm going to let our development team chime in here for some insight.

Thanks Michael. We were able to reproduce this on Azure SQL. We reproduced the issue on Azure SQL, and we have logged it as a bug under TSS-3126. At the moment, we do not have a reliable workaround inside the Alter Table dialog. The current workaround is to run the ALTER statement manually

This is a separate issue The Azure SQL Alter Table issue was logged as TSS-3126 and is related to detecting changes to existing columns in the Alter Table dialog The fix for TSS-3126 is not addressing that highlighting issue

Alter Table not seeing Changes

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michael.r.hinkle July 17, 2026, 6:52pm 6

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Assuming the issue is related to the fact Microsoft is reporting a really old version from Azure, will the fix being applied for this also fix the issue in the following post?

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Alter Table not seeing Changes

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