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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Renaming a Column
What's wrong ? All Neena did was give another answer to the original question - she even said don't do it except in test.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Boy, am I tired of people suggesting this kind of thing. What's the point, when there are SUPPORTED and SAFE ways of doing what you want?
Paul Baumgartel
InstiPro, Inc.
paul.baumgartel_at_instipro.com
212 813-0829 x103 (office)
917 549-4717 (mobile)
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:23 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi,
The suggestion till yet provided are the correct ones and safest. But try this in your test database, get you table id from sys.obj$ table. Then get the columns details from sys.col$ table by giving the table id in where clause. Update the row which corresponds to the column which you want to modify.
??? wrote:
from Oracle 8i
you can drop columns with -- alter table table_name drop column column_name;
and then your can add columns with the name to which you want to rename alter table table_name add(column_name type);
-----Original Message-----
]On Behalf Of bipin sahani
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:05 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
In Oracle
It's not possible to rename a column.You can instead
use alias for that column name in your queries.
Or you have to create a new table from existing one
Drop existing table.And recreate a table by
selecting from new table.
Regards
Bipin
--- Heikki Jantunen <hjantunen_at_hotmail.com> wrote: >
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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