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Hello Peta,
If I understand what you are trying to do you need to do somethign like this:
alter table sylogin.SERIAL
modify USER_MESSAGE1 varchar2(1000) default '' not null;
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:53:41 +1000, "Peta Griffith" <peta_at_dataspeed.com.au> wrote:
>When using this statement:
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>ALTER TABLE sylogin.SERIAL ALTER COLUMN sylogin.USER_MESSAGE1 VARCHAR2
>(1000) DEFAULT ' ' NOT NULL
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>we use the Oracle Provider and this error is returned:
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>ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option
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Received on Sun Jun 24 2001 - 19:17:25 CDT