RE: Renaming a Column

From: Suhen Pather <Suhen.Pather_at_strandbags.com.au>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:37:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002B3654.20010213221520@fatcity.com>

Hessu,

One of the ways:

create table newtable (newcolumn1,newcolumn2,newcolumn3,...) as select * from oldtable
;

rename newtable to oldtable;

HTH
Suhen

Hi all,

I need to rename some columns on my table. Any idea how to do that...

Thanks in advance,

Hessu

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