QUESTION POSED ON: 17 October 2007
Is there a way to insert into SQL Server's system tables. Specifically, I want to mass insert the "description" for certain columns. For example, create_date, will have the same description for all of the tables in the database.
I tried to do the following:
insert into sys.extended_properties(class, class_desc, major_id, minor_id, name, value)
values(1, 'OBJECT_OR_COLUMN', 1973582069,3, 'MS_Description', 'Code used by the
State for reporting purposes');
For which I got the following error:
Msg 259, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not allowed.
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