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What happens when you modify (reduce) a column's length?

Lets say I have two columns of type NUMBER (without precision, and scale) and VARCHAR(300). I saw that these columns are way too large for my data, so I want to modify them to NUMBER(11) and ...
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php/mysql database redesign and migration: changing databases to tables

I wrongly designed my application to have one database to each user. each user had 3 similar tables. I now want to have one database and 3 tables only; where i will use the database name in the old ...
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Logical schema development and migration tool for different physical schema available including triggers and stored procedures?

We are planning to support for our application another rdbms (oracle). At the moment we are design our database schema with the MySQL-Workbench. For every new database version we have schema ...
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Migrating from ntext to NVARCHAR(MAX)

I have table with the columns of type ntext.And for some peculiar reasons, client want to migrate the column type to NVARCHAR(MAX). While doing so , what all potential threat should i be careful ...