Re: How to drop a column????

From: <patilv_at_sharpsec.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 22:13:14 GMT
Message-ID: <6kv91p$6sd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

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
>

Dropping a column is not allowed in Oracle. You can only modify the column. The best solution is to create a copy of the table and recreating the it again from scratch and reimporting the data from the copy. If you need help get in touch with me.

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