Re: Column Name

In the short term:

    Rename XXX to YYY
    create view XXX as select {all the columns} from YYY;

In the longer term - migrate to Oracle 9

Jonathan Lewis
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 04 September 2001 19:18

|List,
|Is there any way to rename a column without changing the position of
column?
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