Re: "Drop & Recreate table" or "alter table drop column". Which

> Jacques Kilchoer wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Rogge [mailto:William_Rogge_at_voltek.com]
> >
> > Because of any synonyms (which are based off of object
> > numbers), Option 1
> > is the only way to go. That is of course unless you want to
> > perform extra
> > work dealing with the synonyms.
>
> I believe that your statment "synonyms are based on object numbers" is
> incorrect.

I fully agree with Jacques. Check sys.syn$, contrarily to most other dictionary tables you have neither obj# nor user# but plain names. You can see them as the equivalent of soft links under Unix - mere aliases, which may point to nothing?

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