On 9/10/07, Ashish Karalkar <ashish.karalkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > I am having a table with 5 columns. > I want to add another column by altering the table at 2nd position > constraint is that I can not drop and recreate the table as column ordering > is of importance. That doesn't make sense. dropping and recreating the table isn't really constrained by column ordering. Now, if you've got FK constraints, other triggers, rules, etc... then I can see those being an issue. > Is there anyway to do so. Not without dropping and recreating the table OR creating an updatable view on top of it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings