How to change the width of a field?

Hi all,
I would like to decrease the width of a field on my report.
But I can't do it in the Property palette. I am not able to change the width property. The width of the database column is varchar2(255). I do not want to decrease the length of the database column, but only the width property of the field.
Any ideas?
Regards

As far as I knows, you can only increase the width of a
character column. If you wish to decrease it, I would think
you'd have to drop/delete the whole column and recreate it,
loosing all your data in the process (unless you create a
temporary table into which you copy the data first, and then
copy it back into the "new" column - the oracle db will truncate
the data automatically).
SQL Plus is very well suited for the task, but requires you to
write the appropriate SQL statements yourself. Other tools may
simplify this for you (I use SQL Plus myself).
Hope this helps.
Eric (guest) wrote:
: Hai, How to change the width of the field in a particular
table.
: I try to do so by using 'Schema Builder ver 6.0', but the
result
: come with a message like below :-
: OBE-15472: Cannot decrease length of existing column
: 1. where should I be to modify the column width ?
: 2. is SQL Plus 8.0 can do so? if yes, what's the syntax ?
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