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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:38 PM pablop

SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Hi! I came across with this error in SQL Server Management Studio  everytime I made some modifications in a table, i.e. adding relationships.

Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can't be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes that require the table to be re-created.

It was pretty tedious and generated a lot of doubts to me. Then, after making a quick search I found this great post from Brian Knight which explains how to avoid this behavior 'by design' :)

 In a nutshell, the solution is:

This is by design and can be quickly fixed in Management Studio by unchecking a property. To fix this in Management Studio, go to Tools -> Options then go to the Designer Page and uncheck "Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation".

Complete info, here: http://pragmaticworks.com/community/blogs/brianknight/archive/2008/06/04/sql-server-2008-designer-behavior-change-saving-changes-not-permitted.aspx

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# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Saturday, December 06, 2008 4:51 AM by Santosh Rane

Good One! Worked. Thank you

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Saturday, December 06, 2008 4:47 PM by Pablo Peralta

Great!. Thanks.

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:54 PM by skyline

I try to fixed it very long times.Thanks a lot. ^_^

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:42 PM by Mike Hankey

Thanks worked out well.  I'm still learning SQL so am grateful when finding time savers like this.

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Monday, January 05, 2009 8:47 PM by Nguyen Thi

Thanks alot!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:11 AM by Eoan

That's silly. "Unhandy by design" ?

When I'm designing tables, most of the time they'll still be _empty_ anyway, so what do I care if they need to be dropped and rebuilt...

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:43 AM by pablop

...that is the behavior by default! ..lol!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:49 PM by Bill Kuhn

Same people who designed Vista obviously worked on SQL 2008

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:38 AM by Tim Mather

What a bunch of idiots, by default we don't let you modify a table after it has been created, MUPPETS!!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:30 AM by Rajesh.T

Thanks a lot. Now i am able to do the chages in the table poperties uisng  management studio.

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Friday, July 31, 2009 2:02 PM by nojetlag

Wow now even in SQL 2008 they make these silly "we know what's best for you" decisions. I fear in SQL2010 MS Bob will reappear. MSFT what's wrong with you lately ?

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:24 AM by Guarnarius

I think this is a GOOD thing, as you wouldn't want to drop a table in a production db by accident.  My nit is that SSMS tries to drop the table even if I simply add a new column to the table.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:53 AM by passsha

Thanks a lot!!!

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Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:15 AM by kikus

отлично написано, у автора прям талант

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Monday, August 23, 2010 12:52 AM by raver

THANKS!!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:06 PM by jonshan

I just ran into this and did not want to re-create my table manually. You are a lifesaver.

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Sunday, December 05, 2010 4:38 AM by food sales

nice and thanks.

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Friday, December 24, 2010 9:34 AM by HSE student

Thank you so much!)

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Monday, January 17, 2011 2:21 PM by fof

Yes !!!! many thanks mister ^^

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Friday, February 04, 2011 11:16 AM by Daniel Morkla

Thanks for a very good and simple solution

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Friday, February 11, 2011 8:01 PM by Esther Pressler

Thanks - you saved me a lot of work!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:02 AM by Vahe

Thank you very much

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Friday, April 01, 2011 11:35 AM by london hotels

thanks good solution. i am trying to save i found your way

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Sunday, April 03, 2011 7:54 PM by Earl

Thanks alot, I was bout to pull out my hair. Such an easy fix, IF you know what button to Push.

Thanks,

Earl

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 10:08 AM by Dave

If you use this option, SQL might just wipe out all the existing data in your table. That happened to me when I added a datetime field set to 'no nulls' to an existing table. It did not give me a warning about what it was going to do either.

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Friday, May 13, 2011 11:56 AM by jp

thanks a ton. worked for me

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:39 AM by naqvi

thanks . its working

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:28 AM by ross

Thanks for the tip!

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Monday, June 27, 2011 7:10 PM by rey

Thanks.

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Friday, July 01, 2011 4:27 PM by DHS_DBA

Crazy thing to have check marked out of the box without notifying DBA's or Developers...

Thanks for being there.

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Wednesday, July 06, 2011 5:53 AM by Tim

Thanks!

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:18 AM by chani123

Great! it's work, thank you very much!!!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:04 AM by Farhan Alam

Great Work man

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Friday, August 19, 2011 8:46 AM by Siddheshwar Duchal

Great ! It's work. thanx....

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:52 AM by bobby

this helped.thanks

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, October 04, 2011 3:33 PM by mkk

this hint should be in the error message ...

thanks!!!!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:18 AM by rsapan

Thank you.

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:25 PM by Jegannathan

Really timely help great pakka

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Friday, November 18, 2011 10:29 PM by Vinay Kr Chowdhary

Smart help, Thanks A lot

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Friday, November 25, 2011 5:39 AM by Mass

Cheers for this - just saved me a load of time

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Monday, December 26, 2011 4:17 PM by tanks

Tank

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 2:44 AM by Saed Omar

Many thanks

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:52 PM by Buck

I feel dumb for not knowing this.  Thanks!  You saved me from myself!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:42 AM by Sequel Swerver

More stupid default behaviour from MS to remove! Thanks for a great find :)

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:56 PM by Soe

Thanks a lot. you saved my time.

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:20 AM by Minh

Tks so much!

# re: SQL 2008 - "Saving changes is not permitted." error message..

Wednesday, February 01, 2012 4:20 PM by Amit Patel

Thaks a lot,

Your post helped me solve my issue. Thanks

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