Re: Drop a column in a 9 million records table

Ruth to drop a column, use truncate?

Joe

Ruth Gramolini wrote:
>
> Use truncate instead of drop. Ruth
>
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> > The database is Oracle8.1.7. I used the syntax:
> > alter table foo drop column bar;
> >
> > Why it gives run out of RBS error? Is alter table a
> > DDL? How does it use RBS?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Chris Harvest
> >
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