Dropping a User-Defined Datatype

Drop a user-defined datatype to remove it from your database.

Prerequisites 

Before you can edit a user-defined datatype, be sure the data server that contains the user-defined datatype is running, and you created and established a connection to the data server.

  1. In the Databases folder in Enterprise Explorer, under the database connection profile, expand the navigation tree for the appropriate database and schema owner.
    Database Steps
    From an ASE connection profile
    1. Expand the Databases folder.
    2. Expand the tree for a database and then the tree for the appropriate schema owner.
    From a SQL Anywhere or Sybase IQ connection profile
    1. Expand the tree for a database.
    2. Expand the Schemas folder and then the tree for the appropriate schema owner.
  2. Under the User Defined Types folder, right-click the datatype you want to drop, and choose Drop.
Related concepts
User-Defined Datatypes
Related tasks
Creating a SQL Anywhere or Sybase IQ User-Defined Datatype
Creating an ASE User-Defined Datatype
Editing a SQL Anywhere or Sybase IQ User-Defined Datatype
Editing an ASE User-Defined Datatype
Renaming a User-Defined Datatype


Created June 25, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com