[Cialug] DB2

[David Champion]

I think Jon was joking.

We might need to start putting <humor></humor> tags around stuff today. :p

Back to your original topic: Are you sure that by dropping your ID 
column that you're not going to cause a problem with a relationship / 
constraint / trigger? Relational Databases can be tricky if you don't 
know what you're doing... you could cause a lot of trouble.

-dc

David Stout wrote:
> 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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