Thank you for replying my question. I think I got the
answers and will choose to set the column unused
instead(we can waste some disk space, and we don't
want the transaction to fail because of the big
rollback segment required).
Thanks,
Chris
- "Joseph S. Testa" <teci_at_oracle-dba.com> wrote:
> Ruth to drop a column, use truncate?
>
> Joe
>
> Ruth Gramolini wrote:
> >
> > Use truncate instead of drop. Ruth
> >
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> > > The database is Oracle8.1.7. I used the syntax:
> > > alter table foo drop column bar;
> > >
> > > Why it gives run out of RBS error? Is alter
> table a
> > > DDL? How does it use RBS?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Chris Harvest
> > >
> > >
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