Oracle-L: RE: how to get rid of default

From: Tim Fleury <Tim_Fleury_at_perlegen.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:19:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5182.20031030101940@fatcity.com>

I believe your only option with the alter table command is to set it to null (which it can't be on an insert that doesn't provide a value since the column is set up as not null).

ALTER TABLE table_name
MODIFY (column_name DEFAULT NULL);

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Hi.

I have created a field in a table with a default clause. - f1 number(1) not null default 1. How can I get rid of the default now?

thanks

Gene

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