[Cialug] DB2

[Jon Clemons]

Marshalltown 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Stout 
  To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [Cialug] DB2


  Where are you located?

  Jon Clemons <clemdog at marshallnet.com> wrote: 
    Come up here and I can fix that crazy want real quick:)

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Dave J. Hala Jr." 
    To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" 
    Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:51 AM
    Subject: Re: [Cialug] DB2


    > Now that makes me want to switch from Mysql to DB2....
    >
    >
    > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 09:48, Tim Wilson wrote:
    >> It is true, it depends on the version of DB2. In our update scripts,
    >> any time we have to add or delete a column, we go through these steps:
    >> 1. ALTER TABLE table DROP CONSTRAINT constraint; (Do this for each 
    >> constraint).
    >> 2. RENAME TABLE table TO oldtable;
    >> 3. CREATE TABLE table ...
    >> 4. INSERT INTO table ... SELECT ... FROM oldtable;
    >> 5. DROP TABLE oldtable;
    >>
    >> On 9/21/05, David Stout wrote:
    >> >
    >> > There is no Primary or Foreign Key on this column.
    >> > I have the same privileges as admin
    >> >
    >> > Dave Weis wrote:
    >> >
    >> > Try
    >> > ALTER TABLE payroll DROP company_id
    >> > If it's a key as the name implies it might have constraints from other
    >> > tables preventing it from being dropped at all.
    >> >
    >> > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, David Stout wrote:
    >> >
    >> > > I tryed this
    >> > >
    >> > > ALTER TABLE PAYROLL
    >> > > DROP COLUMN COMPANY_ID
    >> > >
    >> > > and got this
    >> > >
    >> > >
    >> > > Error: SQL0104N An unexpected token "COLUMN" was found following 
    >> > > "TABLE
    >> > PAYROLL DROP". Expected tokens may include: "CONSTRAINT". 
    >> > SQLSTATE=42601
    >> > >
    >> > > (State:42601, Native Code: FFFFFF98)
    >> > >
    >> > >
    >> > > "Nathan C. Smith" wrote:
    >> > > 'Alter table' in SQL?
    >> > >
    >> > > -----Original Message-----
    >> > > From: David Stout [mailto:ragbrai65 at yahoo.com]
    >> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:59 AM
    >> > > To: cialug at cialug.org
    >> > > Subject: [Cialug] DB2
    >> > >
    >> > >
    >> > ! > I need a little help does anyone know If you can delete a column 
    >> > from a
    >> > table in DB2. If so what is the syntax?
    >> > >
    >> > >
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