Good Morning,
Thank you for your reply. Yes, the feature class (servicepoint) is versioned. Actually, what I learned so far is that in ArcMap (front end) I am working with a view (servicepoint_evw). However, when I updated the field on the database end, I updated the actual data 'servicepoint' that's a part of the view (along with a/d tables).
No, there's no domain/subtype applied on that field.
I guess, the question should be, if there's a safe way to modify the field from the database end that would translate to servicepoint_evw I see in the front end.