Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN ?

From: <davidp3_at_soho.ios.com>
Date: 1996/02/02
Message-ID: <4esb86$pqq_at_news2.ios.com>#1/1


In article <4emckd$2i9_at_news.icubed.com>,

   jbgreene_at_infobahn.icubed.com (Joe Greene) wrote:
>In article <4ei2pf$76j_at_maya.dei.unipd.it>, qwerty_at_chiara.dei.unipd.it (Luigi
>Scappin 264462/IL) wrote:
>> Hi.
>> I'm loking for an Oracle SQL statement to DROP a COLUMN in a database
 table.
>> I think it's a stupid question... but I don't know how... :-)
>>
>You can alter it and make it null, but I do not believe that you can drop a
column.

Just rewrite table to temp_table and create table AS table new without don't_want_it_column

Dave

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