Rename column name in MySQL using Python
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13 Jan, 2021
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In this article, we are going to see how we can rename or alter the name of a column table using Python. Python allows the integration of a wide range of database servers with applications. A database interface is required to access a database from Python. MySQL Connector-Python module is an API in python for communicating with a MySQL database.
Approach:
- Import module.
- Make a connection request with the database.
- Create an object for the database cursor.
- Execute the following MySQL query:
ALTER TABLE your_table_name RENAME COLUMN original_column_name TO new_column_name;
Example:
In this example we are using this database table with the following query;
Below is the implementation:
# Establish connection to MySQL database
import mysql.connector
db = mysql.connector.connect(
host="localhost",
user="root",
password="root123",
database = "geeks"
)
#getting the cursor by cursor() method
mycursor = db.cursor()
query = "ALTER TABLE persons RENAME COLUMN PersonID TO Emp_Id;"
mycursor.execute(query)
# close the Connection
db.close()
After running this script, let's check our tables:
