Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
>John McCawley <nospam@hardgeus.com> schrieb:
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>>However, in the real world, ...
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>...And i think, other systems do this:
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>- begin
>- create a new temp. table with the new order
>- insert all values from the old table in the new temp. table
>- drop the old table
>- rename the temp. table to the old table name
>- commit
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>You can do the same, no problem.
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Except for the details regarding dependent views and foreign key
references... (as someone mentioned mentioned earlier!). And you
probably wouldn't want to do that on an in-production system, I would
think, although the transaction block prehaps provides appropriate
protection.
Regards,
Berend Tober
