Database Tool

VPCART gives you more flexibility by adding menu Database Tool in the administration to allow you to execute any SQL query you may have written in txt file.

You can access it in the administration menu : Misc>Database Tool



Example, say you want to add a new column to Categories table called specialcat with text field type and field length 5 in the SQL SERVER DB, you may be write as :

ALTER TABLE categories ADD COLUMN specialcat text(5);

And then you can save the SQL syntax into a txt file e.g. addcustomfields.txt.
You will then upload the txt file into the admin folder using FTP.

Then you can try to execute it from the Database Tool menu in the administration, and entering the txt filename that you have uploaded and click Convert.