>>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?
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>The reason why you cannot is : the cursor contains a field with a name longer than 10 chars
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>See message#1459597

I was about to post similar response. I got burned on that one myself.
Normally I never use field names longer then 10 chars. Problem was that I had one of those to be 11 - entered by mistake.