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How change Column Data Type from Number to Varchar 2 with out deleting data
Hi,
I landed into a funny problem. One of my table DEPARTMENTS as dep_id as number, recentny my organization started to use characters for department ids. Could you tell me is there any way i can change the data type to character with out emptying the column.
Thanks in advance
Jagannadh
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This might work ...
Code:
alter table
departments
add (dep_id_chr varchar2(30));
update
departments
set
dep_id_chr=to_char(dep_id,'fm99999999999999');
commit;
alter table
departments
drop (dep_id);
alter table
departments
rename column dep_id_chr to dep_id;
you'd probably have to drop any indexes on dep_id and rebuild them afterwards, and you'd have to revalidate any views, pl/sql etc referencing the table.
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...but it's going to be terribly slow in case of a hugely populated table (millions records). It will take hours to finish.
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was there a need to bring up up a 4 and a half year old thread just to say that?
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nice hit! you'll be surprised but it was a very 1st link in google search.
I think, for now, probably, the best solution is to use create as select constuct, don't you think?
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