Re: Renaming a Column

[neena]

Hi,
      The suggestion till yet provided are the correct ones and safest. But try this in your test database, get you table id from sys.obj$ table. Then get the columns details from sys.col$ table by giving the table id in where clause. Update the row which corresponds to the column which you want  to  modify.
 

-- neena

??? wrote:

from Oracle 8i
you can drop columns with -- alter table table_name drop column column_name;
and then your can add columns with the name to which you want to rename
alter table table_name add(column_name type);

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bipin sahani
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:05 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Renaming a Column

In Oracle
It's not possible to rename a column.You can instead
use alias for that column name in your queries.
Or you have to create a new table from existing one
Drop existing table.And recreate a table by
selecting from new table.

Regards
Bipin
--- Heikki Jantunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Hi all,
>
> I need to rename some columns on my table. Any idea
> how to do that...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hessu
>
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