Dynamically update Datatypes

[kamels]

Hi, 

Is there a way when new columns come into my workflow, they can automatically update to be a fixed decimal or any type of number field? They are currently coming in as V_String and I was hoping that this would be something I wouldn't have to do manually. 

[apathetichell]

@CoG --- you are correct. I was incorrect in the earlier statement. thanks for pointing that out. I would posit though that this is not what the auto field was tool was built to do --- and it was built to dump excess space in string fields because the difference between a vw_string default size and the max size in the field can be huge and this really hits performance in large datasets.