In this situation it hurts ;-)

The thing is that the resulting cursor is exported to an excel file.

>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?