Monday, February 21, 2011

Replace CHAR with VARCHAR2

How can I replace CHAR with VARCHAR2 in all tables in a schema?

Note: I'm content with a query that returns the ALTER TABLE statements so I can save the script and run it again.

From stackoverflow
  • select 'ALTER TABLE "' || owner || '"."' || table_name
    || '" MODIFY ("' || column_name
    || '" VARCHAR2(' || data_length || '));'
    from all_tab_columns
    where data_type = 'CHAR'
    and owner = :schemaname
    and exists (
        select 1
        from all_tables t
        where tc.owner = t.owner
        and tc.table_name = t.table_name
    );
    
    Aaron Digulla : I've extended the original answer to omit tables which are in the recycle bin. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2446053/what-are-the-bin-tables-in-oracles-all-tab-columns-table

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