Altering a column to be nullable
If this was MySQL syntax, the type would have been missing, as some other responses point out. Correct MySQL syntax would have been:
ALTER TABLE Merchant_Pending_Functions MODIFY NumberOfLocations INT NULL
Posting here for clarity to MySQL users.
Assuming SQL Server
(based on your previous questions):
ALTER TABLE Merchant_Pending_Functions ALTER COLUMN NumberOfLocations INT NULL
Replace INT
with your actual datatype.
In PostgresQL it is:
ALTER TABLE tableName ALTER COLUMN columnName DROP NOT NULL;