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Re: Changing column format

From: Viral Desai <viral303_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:04:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004FE509.20021107130431@fatcity.com>

 

David

Try this...

alter table <tablename> drop primary key;

alter table <tablename> add constraint tbl_pkey primary key ( username );

Viral

>From: "Nguyen, David M"
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: Changing column format
>Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:33:39 -0800
>
>I create a table to store user account information and set "userid" column
>to be primary key. I now want to set "username" to be primary key instead
>of "userid", how do I change it? There are couple hundreds of records in
>table. Please advise.
>
>Thanks,
>David
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