> How else could you refer to it to alter it? ;-)
> Don't get confused between ALTER something (which is DDL) and SELECT
> (which is DML). DDL has stuff under the hood (SQL ops and others) that
> gets past the human barriers for its own purposes.
>
> Remember to separate DDL in its own transaction and commit that
> transaction before you proceed to make any futher reference to the
> affected objects.
>
> ./heLen

Thankyou Helen I did not think thru the distinction you pointed out.