{"id":3418,"date":"2015-12-16T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academy.sqlbak.com\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2023-10-17T05:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:05:18","slug":"unknown-object-type-used-in-a-create-drop-or-alter-statement-msg-343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academy.sqlbak.com\/unknown-object-type-used-in-a-create-drop-or-alter-statement-msg-343\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown object type &#8216;&#8230;&#8217; used in a CREATE, DROP, or ALTER statement (Msg 343)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s consider the error <em>&#8220;Unknown object type &#8216;&#8230;&#8217; used in a CREATE, DROP, or ALTER statement&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>in the following example:<\/p>\n<p>There is a need to add one more column &#8220;Column4&#8221; in the table &#8220;Table_1&#8221; which is located in the database &#8220;Adventureworks&#8221;. To execute this operation has been used the next syntax<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ALTER<\/span> Table_1 \r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ADD<\/span> Column4<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> INT<\/span>;<\/pre>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the column was not added, and the SQL Server showed the following message:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Msg 343, Level 15, State 1, Line 3<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Unknown object type 'Table_1' used in a CREATE, DROP, or ALTER statement.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>This error occurs because SQL Server does not understand what to ALTER. In this case, it is necessary just to add TABLE after ALTER<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ALTER TABLE<\/span> Table_1 \r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ADD<\/span> Column4 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">INT<\/span>;<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s consider the error &#8220;Unknown object type &#8216;&#8230;&#8217; used in a CREATE, DROP, or ALTER statement&#8221;\u00a0in the following example: There is a need to add one more column &#8220;Column4&#8221; in the table &#8220;Table_1&#8221; which is located in the database &#8220;Adventureworks&#8221;. To execute this operation has been used the next syntax ALTER Table_1 ADD Column4 INT;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unknown object type &#039;...&#039; used in a CREATE, DROP, or ALTER statement (Msg 343) - Sql Server Backup Academy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How to solve &quot;Unknown object type &#039;...&#039; used in a CREATE, DROP, or ALTER statement (Msg 343)&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/academy.sqlbak.com\/unknown-object-type-used-in-a-create-drop-or-alter-statement-msg-343\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unknown object type &#039;...&#039; 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