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I have my Oracle Support account configured to send me a daily email of “hot topics”, and I’ve set it up so that the email lists the 100 bugs that have been updated most recently by Oracle support. One of the bugs that came up on 9th Jan was described as: “Bug 18700681 : DROP COLUMNS USING ALTER TABLE VERYhttps://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/simple-talk-dark-background.jpg15001000