How to drop a column????

Hi I'm a new user of ORACLE 8 .
I came from other DB server expaerience. In SQL to drop a column from a table I used

ALTER TABLE name_table DROP COLUMN name_of_ column;

In ORACLE SQL this expression is not recognized I have read the SQL manual but I have not found the solution

HELP me
Ciao Received on Mon Jun 01 1998 - 02:27:43 CDT