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Re: Renaming Columns

From: Luc Gyselinck <Luc.Gyselinck_at_village.uunet.be>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:24:05 +0200
Message-ID: <6s4mes$ddj$1@xenon.inbe.net>


Always do a
alter system flush shared_pool
after commiting the updates!!!

mtillberg_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in message <6s172i$a8i$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> I know it's been posted that columns cannot be renamed, but I was
wondering
>if anyone has tried this by directly modifing the sys.col$ table. I'd do
it
>myself, but I'm more of a programmer than a DBA and we don't have a very
good
>backup system going yet. I've done something similiar to this, modifying
the
>on delete cascade flag for constraints. I update the refact column in the
>sys.cdef$ table. It works, although it seems to take a while for the
changes
>to take effect. I was wondering if this would also work for the column
>names.
>
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Received on Thu Aug 27 1998 - 17:24:05 CDT

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