Re: drop column?

This is something I have been wanting for a long time.  The ability to
update or drop a column from a table.

Right now you have to select the columns you want into a temp table and
drop the working table and rename the temp table to the working table.

|On 020123 12:15
|Jodi Kanter (jkanter@virginia.edu) wrote the following...
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|I cannot seem to locate any documentation about removing a column that I just added to a table. There is no data in
thatparticular column but there is in the rest of the table. 
|Can I remove this column or will I need to drop the entire table and restore from backup?
|Thanks
|Jodi
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|Jodi L Kanter
|BioInformatics Database Administrator
|University of Virginia
|(434) 924-2846
|jkanter@virginia.edu
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