You can remove a column, not just set it to NULL.

Use the ALTER TABLE statement. Syntax:

ALTER TABLE [table]
DROP COLUMN [columnlist]

INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE are all built to change specific records.  ALTER
TABLE changes the structure of your table.

Good luck.

Ryan Duckworth 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Picky delete statement?

Thats right. if you want to delete the columns of a record you have to
update the record and set the columns to null or to whatever the
default defined by the database

e.g.
Update mytable
Set col1 = null
, col2 = null 
Where id = <insert id>

Hope that helps

Regards
Mark Drew



On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:44:53 -0500, Phillip Perry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've read my sql book but I cant find what i'm looking for. According
to the
> book (as far as my understanding is) you cant specify which columns to
> delete, you can only delete the whole record. Is this true?
> 
> Phil
> 
> 



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