Re: How to drop a column????

In article <01bd8a10$a027bab0$0b00a8c0_at_ntserver>,   "Paolo Quaglia" <paolo_at_sitek.it> wrote:
>
> Hi I'm a new user of ORACLE 8 .
> I came from other DB server expaerience.
> In SQL to drop a column from a table I used
>
> ALTER TABLE name_table DROP COLUMN name_of_ column;
>
> In ORACLE SQL this expression is not recognized
> I have read the SQL manual but I have not found the solution
>
> HELP me
> Ciao
>

There is no command to drop column. An easy way to accomplish this is : RENAME old_table_name TO new_table_name CREATE TABLE old_table_name (old_column_name1, old_column_name2) -- that is where you exclude the column you want to drop INSERT INTO old_table_name SELECT new_column_name1, new_column_name2 FROM new_table_name; DROP new_table_name -- don't forget the constraints, indexes sizing and tablespace info. Hope this helps

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