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I sure hope nobody would refer to a column by index instead of by name!!! :)




On 5/15/2013 7:55 AM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
To add to this - I believe that we can add columns BEFORE another column
- I just saw the BEFORE keyword - has to be a more recent release, of
course.

That makes this technique more flexible, I think - nice feature.

HTH
Vern

On 5/15/2013 12:26 AM, Birgitta Hauser wrote:
There is no way to alter a column name, neither the long SQL nor the
short
system name.
What you can do is to add a new column with the desired name, data
type and
length. (If there are already data within the old column copy these data
into the new column).
And delete the old column after.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Betreff: change column name in sql?

We are creating some new files, err, tables using DDL. We created them
using ops nav.

Before we start using them, I would like to change one of the long names
into something a little more accurate. But there appears to be no command
to alter table, alter column that applies to the column name.

I can see where this is something that should only be done under special
circumstances.

Since this is a new table, I can use ops nav to created sql source
statements, delete the table, change the name in the source, and then
execute the source.

Is this the preferred method or is there a better way?

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