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Re: Expanding varchar2 column

From: Paul Baumgartel <paul.baumgartel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:30:17 -0500
Message-ID: <f8c47710511151830j962478aqb0dc39ce351669b7@mail.gmail.com>


Mark,

I'd think that the procedure would be the same regardless of the table's row count--have you considered creating a similar table, enabling trace, and inspecting the trace file?

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Paul Baumgartel
paul.baumgartel_at_aya.yale.edu

On 11/15/05, Strickland, Mark <mark.strickland_at_cingular.com> wrote:

>
> A co-worker needs to modify a varchar2 column from 100 bytes to 200 bytes
> in a large table. We think that it will just modify the data dictionary and
> not do a full table scan. Does anyone know for sure? Yep, I've RTFM'd and
> google'd and metalink'd it. Thx.
> Mark Strickland
> Seattle, WA
>
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Received on Tue Nov 15 2005 - 20:32:25 CST

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