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A copy of this was sent to "Phil Cook" <pncook_at_worldnet.att.net>
(if that email address didn't require changing)
On 7 Nov 1998 01:43:15 GMT, you wrote:
>Age-old question, no good answer yet.
>
>Two options; create a view with just the columns you want or
>drop the table and re-create. A number of ways to do this,
>one way is to export the table, create an ascii file using
>imp indexfile=xxx and then modify the xxx script. Just
>be careful if any foreign keys are pointing to the table.
>
>Maybe Oracle 9 or 10 will fix this....
>
>Phil Cook
8i :)
SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.3.0.0 - Beta on Fri Nov 6 20:43:25 1998
(c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle8 Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.3.0.0 - Beta
With the Partitioning and Objects options
PL/SQL Release 8.1.3.0.0 - Beta
SQL> desc emp;
Name Null? Type ------------------------------- -------- ---- EMPNO NOT NULL NUMBER(4) ENAME VARCHAR2(10) JOB VARCHAR2(9) MGR NUMBER(4) HIREDATE DATE SAL NUMBER(7,2) COMM NUMBER(7,2) DEPTNO NUMBER(2)
SQL> alter table emp drop column job;
Table altered.
SQL> desc emp
Name Null? Type ------------------------------- -------- ---- EMPNO NOT NULL NUMBER(4) ENAME VARCHAR2(10) MGR NUMBER(4) HIREDATE DATE SAL NUMBER(7,2) COMM NUMBER(7,2) DEPTNO NUMBER(2)
Thomas Kyte
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