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why do you care what order the columns are in?
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why do you care what order the columns are in?

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when a table has the below kind of index (with a WHERE), then it does not allow me to rearrange the order of columns, unless i drop the index first. is there a way to disable this need?<br />
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CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX ix_abc <br />
&nbsp;ON tablename (Columname) WHERE Columname IS NOT NULL
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when a table has the below kind of index (with a WHERE), then it does not allow me to rearrange the order of columns, unless i drop the index first. is there a way to disable this need?

CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX ix_abc 
 ON tablename (Columname) WHERE Columname IS NOT NULL

not able to rearrange the columns if it had the ALTER TABLE INDEX

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