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Ashwani Yadav
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In my table I have one column InstituteID Number(5) which I have to make it to InstituteID Varchar(6) so my doubt is can I do this without deleting the data of the existing column.
If it can be done can anyone suggest me how to do it?
 
Beksy Kurian
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In 8i, the column has to be empty to change the datatype.
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[ October 01, 2002: Message edited by: Beksy Kurian ]
 
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