RE: Renaming columns ...

How does it know which column to rename?

At 11:21 AM 6/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY ( new_col_name DATATYPE);
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>It works for me in 8i.
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>Chris:
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>I've been browzing the on-line docs for 9i and the release notes and have
>seen nothing about renaming a column...can you point me to the location in
>the docs that give the syntax?
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>Thanks
>Kevin
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>Yes renaming a column is supported, in fact you can change almost every
>aspect of a table online.
>it works parallel to existing table, right before switching them over, it
>gets the latest DML applied, then switches over.
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>"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
>both are frozen."
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>Christopher R. Spence
>Oracle DBA
>Fuelspot
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>Hi Raj,
> 1. There is a way to do it. And Mr. Steve A. has some good info about it (&
>its implications) on his web site. (Sorry I do not have a direct URL link to
>it). I believe this works for all versions.
> 2. Yes, it does. I have played with it on my test database.
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> However, I will not do this on a Production database as it involves a
>direct DML to modify sys.COL$. And Oracle does not recommend doing such
>things to your databases.
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>I am not sure if renaming column is supported in 9i. Anyone else know for
>sure?
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>If you are using 8i, the safe way to address this is to add a new column to
>the table, populate it with the contents from the old, and drop the old
>column. If the column is not nullable, and if there are plenty of nullable
>columns towards the end of the table, I suggest considering reorganization
>of the table. I just did that (reorg) in the last couple of weeks with a
>60Mil row table to get the new & not nullable columns towards the 'head' of
>the table.
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>HTH,
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>Regards,
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>- Kirti Deshpande
> Verizon Information Services
> http://www.superpages.com
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> > From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [SMTP:Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:51 AM
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> > Subject: Renaming columns ...
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > although I am searching information on Metalink and OTN, I just want to
> > ask
> > this question to the list ...
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> > 1. Is it possible to rename a column? (we have lots of columns that need
> > to
> > be renamed). Which version supports it?
> > 2. Does renaming automatically takes care of indexes?
> >
> > Coding will be a lot of manual labor, but that's okay we can handle it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Raj
> > ______________________________________________________
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