SSMS Tips and Tricks 1-9: Turn off option to prevent saving changes that require table recreation
I don’t use the table designer in SQL Server Management Studio. Sorry, but I just don’t like it, or the options that it chooses for me. I’d rather use T-SQL every time, but I’m also the first to admit that there are plenty of people who would use that designer.
And when they do, many run into an error that says:
Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that 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.
2025-05-25