Is there a way to decrease the column length in DB2?
Say I have a table temp with column col1 defined as VARCHAR(80). I want to reduce it to VARCHAR(60).
Is there a way to decrease the column length in DB2? Say I have
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Is there a way to decrease the column length in DB2?
Say I have a table temp with column col1 defined as VARCHAR(80). I want to reduce it to VARCHAR(60).
In DB2 9.7 for Linux/UNIX/Windows, you can use the ALTER TABLE statement to reduce the length of a column, assuming that no values in the column exceed the new column size:
If any values in the column exceed the desired size you must handle that first.
In previous versions of DB2 for Linux/UNIX/Windows, you could not utilize this method to reduce the size of the column. You either had to drop/recreate the table, or go through a process of adding a column, copying data, and removing the old column.