SQL Server Error Msg 1731 – Cannot create the sparse column ‘%.*ls’ in the table ‘%.*ls’ because an option or data type specified is not valid. A sparse column must be nullable and cannot have the ROWGUIDCOL, IDENTITY, or FILESTREAM properties. A sparse column cannot be of the following data types: text, ntext, image, geometry, geography, or user-defined type.

In this blog post, let’s learn about the error message “1731 – Cannot create the sparse column ‘%.*ls’ in the table ‘%.*ls’ because an option or data type specified is not valid. A sparse column must be nullable and cannot have the ROWGUIDCOL, IDENTITY, or FILESTREAM properties. A sparse column cannot be of the following data types: text, ntext, image, geometry, geography, or user-defined type.” in Microsoft SQL Server, the reason why it appears and the solution to fix it.

SQL Server Error Message

1731 – Cannot create the sparse column ‘%.*ls’ in the table ‘%.*ls’ because an option or data type specified is not valid. A sparse column must be nullable and cannot have the ROWGUIDCOL, IDENTITY, or FILESTREAM properties. A sparse column cannot be of the following data types: text, ntext, image, geometry, geography, or user-defined type.

Reason for the Error

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Solution

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