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Can a view affect ALTER TABLE commands?

I provide a database system to a number of customers. The database is installed locally on Oracle. We periodically upgrade the database structure (either adding new fields, renaming old fields, ...
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SQL set allowed values for a column

I want to make an ALTER TABLE expression which adds a new column and sets a default value and additionaly defines the allowed values for that column. It's a text column, and allowed should be only ...
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What happens when you modify (reduce) a column's length?

Lets say I have two columns of type NUMBER (without precision, and scale) and VARCHAR(300). I saw that these columns are way too large for my data, so I want to modify them to NUMBER(11) and ...
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Why won't Oracle alter the size of a column that is used for sub partitioning?

I am trying to resize a varchar2 column, when I get an ORA-14265 error: ORA-14265: data type or length of a table subpartitioning column may not be changed With Oracle providing the unhelpful: ...
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Modifying table structure within a transaction?

In Oracle (and probably elsewhere), executing an ALTER TABLE statement will do an implicit commit on the current transaction. We have a tool (written in Java) that should modify a schema by: adding ...