Adding new field to a large table

Hi,

I added a new field to a table. In the development environment it's not a big of a deal. The object compiled and everything works fine.

But in Test/Production the table is pretty big (>1mio entries). So when I try to import the object to the Navision envirenment it takes ages (>2 hours) and then it fails because of a full transaction log of the SQL server.

The field is a simple Code (10) and doesn't have a default/init value.

Is there a trick to optimize the performance of these kind of operations?

Thanks,

Michael