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Week #2: Articles

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn how the data dictionary manages tables, columns, and constraints.
  • Learn how to drop tables.
  • Learn how to drop indexes.
  • Learn how to drop views.
  • Learn how to drop types.

DDL Commands

ALTER Statement

You can apply the ALTER statement to many objects in the database. For example, you can change databases, users, tables, indexes, sequences, synonyms, types, view, and directories. This post focuses on changing columns and constraints of tables.

Tables & the Data Dictionary

This section shows you how to discover and work with the data dictionary to understand how tables really work in the Oracle relational database.

ALTER table columns

This section shows you how to add columns to, modify columns in, and drop columns from a table.

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August 7th, 2018 at 12:52 am

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