RE: Renaming a Column

Hi All

I think I did send one out earlier. Don't bite.

You can't rename a column. The combatibility parameter issue I was thinking of has to do with when you want to drop a column in 8i. That I know, has to be greater or equal to 8.1.0 when you want to drop a column

Sorry again

Regards
JL

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Ok i'll bite, i try to keep up with the new features and i'm looking at 8i(8.1.7) docs right now and i dont see it, would you like to elaborate?

you can rename a table, rename a partition but NOT rename a column, this has been on the wish-list for many years just like drop column was.

Feel free to flame me if i'm wrong(it does happen but rarely) :)

joe

"Johan Locke_at_i-Commerce Services" wrote:
>
> Wait wait wait...
>
> Yes you can rename a column in 8i, it just depends to what value your
> compatibility parameter is set
>
> Regards
> JL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:05 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> 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 <hjantunen_at_hotmail.com> 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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