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Hi - I am something of a newbie and am a little perplexed. When (trying to) modify a table I issue the following commands with subsequent errors sqldf("alter table Korea drop column code", dbname = "mydb") error in statement: near "drop": syntax error or sqldf("alter table Korea rename column hyr to hyrI", dbname = "mydb") error in statement:

So, under Sqlite2, if I want to update a database''s schema, I have to dump the DB, modify the table''s structure, then go and modify EVERY insert statement. The insert statements look like (from memory): INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (''some_id'', ''some_val'', '''', '''', '''', ''some_other