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Re: Drop Field

From: Nuno Guerreiro <nuno-v-guerreiro_at_telecom.pt>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 08:46:40 GMT
Message-ID: <35a08e4e.512217559@news.telecom.pt> 





On 6 Jul 1998 05:36:26 GMT, "Bruger" <Bruger_at_firma.dk> wrote:



>Hi


>You canīt drop a field name !!! You have to drop and recreate the whole


>table...


>





Yeah! Does anyone already know why has Oracle decided that an option
for dropping a column in the ALTER TABLE command would be useless?



Just curiosity. I've never worked with other major DBMS, I wonder if
they all think the same way.



Nuno Guerreiro

Received on Mon Jul 06 1998 - 03:46:40 CDT












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