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Re: how to alter table columns:

From: Chris Hamilton <ToneCzar_at_erols.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:19:24 GMT
Message-ID: <37b96113.3928048@news.erols.com>


On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 06:55:19 GMT, "Rauno Seppanen" <rauno.seppanen_at_icon.fi> wrote:

>I believe those are the reasons why this shouldn't be used in production
>area but in
>development stage it can be useful. If developing is well organized and you
>can keep
>track whose is doing what then this change is possible and sometimes useful.

I did it once on a development server just to see what would happen. None of my procedures that referenced the altered table would work after that, even after recompiling, shutdown, flush, etc.

Chris



Christopher Hamilton
Oracle DBA -- Wall Street Sports
chris_at_wallstreetsports.com
http://www.wallstreetsports.com/ Received on Tue Aug 17 1999 - 08:19:24 CDT

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