enum-equivalent data type for MS SQL 2000

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November 24th, 2003, 12:51 AM

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enum-equivalent data type for MS SQL 2000

Hello,

I understand that there is no ENUM data type in MS SQL 2000. Is there a way of converting a MySQL table that has ENUM's to a similar table in MS SQL?

For example, if I have a column 'month_number' that can hold values between 1 and 12 I would use

CREATE TABLE example_table (
other column info...,
month_number ENUM ('1','2', ... etc to '12'),
other column info...,
);

for a MySQL table creation statement. How could I do something similar in MS SQL 2000? I have other ENUM columns with text as well.

November 24th, 2003, 03:05 AM

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Code:

CREATE TABLE example_table (
other column info...,
month_number smallint
check (mont_number  in (1,2, ... etc to 12)),
other column info...,
)

There you are, all standard SQL.

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