I think his/her database is 7.x not 8.x.
You can drop,move, all these good things in 8.x only.
- "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala_at_oxhp.com> wrote:
> Stephane, the idea of dropping and re-creating
> tables is simply
> preposterous. If the tables involved are bigger then
> 50M, then
> such procedure is not practical. Anyway, I don't see
> why would
> the table need to be dropped/re-created now when we
> can drop columns
> and move/rebuild tables. Fortunately for me, I am
> 6'4", 250 LBS, former
> greko-roman wrestler, so not many people do come up
> with such ideas on
> Friday afternoon.
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I do not know if it's friday afternoon or what ?
> The developpers want me to regenerate the grants in
> the development environment because they're running
> a
> script that drops and recreates a new version of the
> tables.
> I asked them : Could you do an alter table instead ?
>
> The developpers : What ! they'are at least 10 new
> fields !
>
> I used to be a developper, I do not remember myself
> dropping and recreating everything each time I add a
> new field . Anyway in production, only the new stuff
> goes in.
>
> Any comments ?
>
> =====
> Stephane Paquette
> DBA Oracle
> stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com
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