It's a cursor, just leave the extra column as is, it doesn't hurt.

>I created a cursor. I did some additional processing after that cursor was created. Now there's a column I don't need anymore.
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>How do I get rid of that column?
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> I tried the following
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>ALTER table NameOfCursor drop column NameOfColumn
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>Didn't work.
>Error 1115 : Invalid operation for the cursor.
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>Is the only solution creating another cursor and selecting only the needed columns from the original cursor?