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Re: Why can we not delete columns in tables?

From: Greg Kainz <gkainz_at_rmi.net>
Date: 1997/10/03
Message-ID: <34354DB8.6C8C@rmi.net>#1/1

I believe disallowing a drop column from table is ANSI SQL standard (but I'm not sure anymore)... So, it's not Oracle's failing here. Tim Eyres wrote:
>
> Thomas Kyte wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:17:10 +0200, Tim Eyres <tim.eyres_at_genedata.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Does anybody know the justification for not being able to delete columns
> > >from tables when using Oracle? Is there a genuine relational database
> > >principle behind it or is it just an Oracle failing?
> > >
> > >Tim
> >

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