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Re: Re: Automatically altering tables from different schema'sby liz (Monsignor) |
on Jan 08, 2004 at 18:21 UTC ( [id://319892]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
...the difference is mainly in column order...
I was thinking of not considering these significant. Well, not in the initial version (I was thinking hashes rather than diffs ;-). ...but also the id and status columns are not qualified as "unsigned"... I would consider those significant. Database engines might just change a flag in the format instead of updating each field: that's their business. ...you could always create a new table and load it from the old one, then rename the results... That would be the database independent fallback. But since renaming a table is not standard SQL (is it, it would involve:
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