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Alter table <tablename> drop column <col>

577696Sep 12 2007 — edited Sep 13 2007
I tried to drop a column from a table created by sys user. Being a sys user I am unable to drop the column. Please explain.

SQL> alter table test move tablespace users;

Table altered.

SQL> alter table test drop column two;
alter table test drop column two
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12988: cannot drop column from table owned by SYS

Here two is the column name.

Regards
Vijay Kumar
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