Hi Scott
Scott Frankel wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to specify a position when adding a column to a table?
No not AFAIK.
> I want to swap one column for another without losing the column's
> position. eg: given that 'foo' is the 5th column in an 8 column table,
> I want to replace it with a 'bar' column at column 5.
>
> ALTER TABLE qwe DROP COLUMN foo;
> ALTER TABLE qwe ADD COLUMN bar;
ALTER TABLE qwe RENAME COLUMN foo TO bar;
That does imply the COLUMN TYPE stays the same though... The help file
does have examples in the ALTER TABLE section how to change the TYPE of a
column.
HTH,
Johan Nel
Pretoria, South Africa.
