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From: "Fenstermacher, Robert-Contractor" <rfenste at uswest dot com>
Subject: Re: alter table errors
Date: Jan 20 1999 8:05PM

Dave-
    You can add multiple columns at a time in an 
alter table, but do NOT repeat the add keyword for 
the columns after the first.

your alter table statement should read:

     alter table mytable
      add k5 numeric(15,15) null,
          d5 numeric(15,15) null,
          k9 numeric(15,15) null,
          d9 numeric(15,15) null,
          k13 numeric(15,15) null,
          d13 numeric(15,15) null,
          k21 numeric(15,15) null,
          d21 numeric(15,15) null

I hope this helps-

Robert Fenstermacher
Conversion Specialists, Inc
Denver, CO
fence@xpert.net

---Dave Waller  wrote:
>
> I am triing to alter a table to add 6 columns.
> 
> In that ASE manual they say you can add them at the same time but both
> SybPerl and isql won't let me.
> 
> Here is what I am triing to do:
> 
> $sql_stat = qq{
>     alter table $table
>      add k5 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add d5 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add k9 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add d9 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add k13 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add d13 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add k21 numeric(15,15) null,
>      add d21 numeric(15,15) null
>     };
> $dbh->dbcmd($sql_stat);
>      unless ($dbh->dbsqlexec){
>   die "Cannot alter table: statment [$sql_stat] message [
> $dbh->DB_ERROR()]\n"
>   }
> print "table altered\n";
> 
> I have only got it working if I do it one column at a time.
> 
> Dave Waller
> 
> 
> 
>