Prasad Chava

Bala Koteswara Prasad (Prasad) Chava is experienced in working on Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. He is a certified Microsoft professional developer. He has multiple professional certifications ranging from Salesforce, Azure, PMP and Dell Boomi. He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has extensive experience in software architecture, solution delivery, and project management. He worked with many reputed organizations like IBM, Accenture, and Deloitte. He has extensive experience in TSQL and SQL server performance tuning.
  • Skills: C#.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure, Salesforce, Boomi, BizTalk, BMC Control-M, PMP

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Adding and Dropping Columns II

I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database: 

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList]
(
[CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1),
[CityName] [varchar] (30) ,
[Country2] [char] (3),
[stateprovince2] [char] (2),
[Country] [char] (3),
[stateprovince] [char]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use?

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