Re: Determine if a column exists...

You can do a select from all_tab_columns to check if it returns any row for a given table name & column name

-rbanavara

dogonli..._at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a SQL command in ORACLE (10g) that checks if a table column
> exists?
>
> I have over 700 tables of which some have columns that I want to
> rename, and some
> of the tables don't have the same columns.
>
> I have a script to do this but it fails if a table doesn't contain the
> column I'm
> trying to alter (ORA-00904). I would like to check if the column
> exists before
> executing the alter statement so the script won't abort.
>
> Something like:
> IF EXISTS(tablename.column_name)
> ALTER TABLE tablename RENAME COLUMN column_name TO
> new_column_name
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry
Received on Thu Jul 06 2006 - 16:14:07 CDT