Alter and Modify
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charul sahuADD a column in the table
Syntax:
1. ALTER TABLE table_name
2. ADD new_column_name column_definition
3. [ FIRST | AFTER column_name ];
Parameters
table_name: It specifies the name of the table that you want to modify.
new_column_name: It specifies the name of the new column that you want to add
to the table.
column_definition: It specifies the data type and definition of the column (NULL or
NOT NULL, etc).
FIRST | AFTER column_name: It is optional. It tells MySQL where in the table to
create the column. If this parameter is not specified, the new column will be added to
the end of the table.
Example:
In this example, we add a new column "cus_age" in the existing table "cus_tbl".
Use the following query to do this:
1. ALTER TABLE cus_tbl
2. ADD cus_age varchar(40) NOT NULL;
Output:
See the recently added column:
1. SELECT* FROM cus_tbl;
Output:
2) Add multiple columns in the table
Syntax:
1. ALTER TABLE table_name
2. ADD new_column_name column_definition
3. [ FIRST | AFTER column_name ],
4. ADD new_column_name column_definition
5. [ FIRST | AFTER column_name ],
6. ...
7. ;
Example:
In this example, we add two new columns "cus_address", and cus_salary in the
existing table "cus_tbl". cus_address is added after cus_surname column and
cus_salary is added after cus_age column.
Use the following query to do this:
1. ALTER TABLE cus_tbl
2. ADD cus_address varchar(100) NOT NULL
3. AFTER cus_surname,
4. ADD cus_salary int(100) NOT NULL
5. AFTER cus_age ;
See the recently added columns:
1. SELECT* FROM cus_tbl;
3) MODIFY column in the table
The MODIFY command is used to change the column definition of the table.
Syntax:
1. ALTER TABLE table_name
2. MODIFY column_name column_definition
3. [ FIRST | AFTER column_name ];
Example:
In this example, we modify the column cus_surname to be a data type of varchar(50)
and force the column to allow NULL values.
Use the following query to do this:
1. ALTER TABLE cus_tbl
2. MODIFY cus_surname varchar(50) NULL;
See the table structure:
4) DROP column in table
Syntax:
1. ALTER TABLE table_name
2. DROP COLUMN column_name;
Let's take an example to drop the column name "cus_address" from the table
"cus_tbl".
Use the following query to do this:
1. ALTER TABLE cus_tbl
2. DROP COLUMN cus_address;
Output:
See the table structure:
5) RENAME column in table
Syntax:
1. ALTER TABLE table_name
2. CHANGE COLUMN old_name new_name
3. column_definition
4. [ FIRST | AFTER column_name ]
Example:
In this example, we will change the column name "cus_surname" to "cus_title".
Use the following query to do this:
1. ALTER TABLE cus_tbl
2. CHANGE COLUMN cus_surname cus_title
3. varchar(20) NOT NULL;
Output:
6) RENAME table
Syntax:
1. ALTER TABLE table_name
2. RENAME TO new_table_name;
Example:
In this example, the table name cus_tbl is renamed as cus_table.
1. ALTER TABLE cus_tbl
2. RENAME TO cus_table;
Output: