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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:
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> Thomas Kyte wrote:
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> > 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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