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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2
Components Statements (DDL and DML)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 27, 2022

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This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit DB24LUW-I-1671 Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables.

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables. Merged

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tables in our database environment.

We would need ALTER TABLE .. ALTER COLUMN options that allow at least


  • Modification of numeric column type lengths

  • Rename of columns

E.g. with growing amount of data we face the scenario that requires DBAs to increase DECIMAL type columns to allow for bigger numbers. Given current limitations with ALTER TABLE operations on column organized tables there is no way for us to apply common approaches that relational databases provide with row organized tables.

We are forced to consider approaches that involve unloading existing tables and re-load the data into new tables with the desired schema. This only works up to a certain amount of data given limited time during maintenance windows.

Adding functionality like temporal tables to this equation is limiting these kind of approaches even more as we need to ensure that data movement is not breaking the history nature of our data.

Adding these schema evolution options with ALTER TABLE for any form of column organized will boost usability in real life database scenarios a lot.

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