Cannot find the object because it does not exist or you do not have permissions. Error in SQL Server

Question

I have a database and have a Sql script to add some fields to a table called \"Products\" in the database.

But when i am executing this script, I am getting the foll

Answer 1

The TRUNCATE statement was my first problem, glad to find the solution here. But I was using SSIS and trying to load data from another database, and it failed with the same error on any table that used IDENTITY to create an auto-incrementing ID. If I was scripting it myself I'd first need to use the command SET IDENTITY_INSERT tablename ON, and then SET IDENTITY_INSERT tablename OFF when the table update was done. But this requires ALTER permissions on the table, which I do not have. Hence the error message in SSIS on the table load (even though the previous step had just deleted all the data out of the table.)