Saving changes is not permitted. The changed 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.

Solution:
Tools -> Options -> Untick “Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation” and you will be able to save changes!

I learnt one thing about myself. I’m often time too lazy to read the whole paragraph of the error message. The part I highlighted in bold actually taught me how to fix the problem, but I ignored it. I only found out when I was typing the whole error message out. I must change this aspect of myself, else I’m going to waste time googling for solutions.

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VB.Net

Public Function GenerateRandomPassword(ByVal length as Integer) as String
Dim strGuid as String = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString()
strGuid= strGuid.Replace(“-”, String.Empty)
Return strGuid.Substring(0, length)
End Function

C#

public string GenerateRandomPassword(int length)
{
string strGuid = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
strGuid = strGuid.Replace(“-”, string.Empty);
return guidResult.Substring(0, length);
}

Explanation (for VB.Net and C#)

For C# and VB.Net, they both utilise .Net’s System.Guid class. (Correct me if I’m wrong) NewGuid().ToString() returns a string of 32 hexadecimals (excluding the “-”).

Although its only 0-9 and A-F, I like it as it’s a very simple way to generate the password of my desired length.

Now, let’s move on to PHP. For PHP, it can be very simple too!

PHP

function createRandomPassword($length) {
return substr(md5(date(“D dS M,Y h:i:s a”)),0,$length);
}

Did you see how short things can be?

Explanation (for PHP)

Firstly, I’m generating a string from Datetime with a simple format. Next, I’ll md5 it. You can choose to sha1 it, which is the same. And finally to choose a length of password. Thats all.

Disadvantages for my way of generating (for C#, VB.Net and PHP)

1. Only “A-F”. But it doesn’t really matter to me.
2. Maximum length of 32. You can ofcourse re-generate, but who will need such a long password?

Generating passwords can be simple, right? What other ways can you share with me?

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