Maybe the real table is in some other schema and you
have a synonym for that. So if you want to drop the
table log in as that table owner and do it.
Alroy
- Thomas Harleman <tharleman_at_iquest.net> wrote: >
You first must make sure it is a table.
> Select from ALL_OBJECTS to make sure.
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> I have tried to drop a table, but keep getting the
> message ORA 942 table or
> view does not exist, even though it is there when I
> described it. In Oracle
> 8, how do you delete just one column? Thanks for
> helping.
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