Re: Strange column names

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:21:20 -0700
Message-ID: <1115839029.68867@yasure>

Paul wrote:

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> Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>SQL> alter table T set unused column y;

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> Why would one want to do this?
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> Paul...

Many possible reasons. One of them being that the cost of dropping the column to the system would be to high.

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