I'm doing some bulk migration of a large Oracle database. The first step of this involves renaming a whole load of tables as a preparation for dropping them later (but I need to keep the data in them around for …
What is the difference between ALTER TABLE RENAME statement and RENAME TABLE statement.
ie, between
Alter table old_table_name rename to new_table_name
and
rename table old_table_name to new_table_name.