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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:43:37 -0700
From: jason nordwick <jason@adapt.com>
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To: Judith <jaltamirano@correolux.com.mx>
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Subject: Re: Change of data type
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On pg8, to change tab.col to type t:

  alter table tab alter column col type t

so:
  alter table tab alter column material type text

-j


Judith wrote:

>    Hello everybody, excuse me how can I change de data type of a 
> field, I currently have:
>      material character(30) 
>    but I now want the field in text type like this:
>  
>    material  text
>
>    somebody knows if ALTER TABLE has some option to do this?, or How 
> can I do that?
>
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