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Alter Table:

ALTER TABLE - ADD Column:

To add a colu mn in a table, use the following syntax:

Syntax:

ALTER TABLE Customers ADD Email varchar(255);

ALTER TABLE - RENAME COLUMN:

ALTER TABLE Persons ALTER COLUMN DateOfBirth year;

Syntax:

ALTER TABLE table_ name RENAME COLUMN old_name to new_name;

ALTER TABLE - ALTER/MODIFY DATATYPE:

To change the data type of a column in a table, use the following syntax:

ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY COLUMN column_name datatype;

change the column position:

You can change the column position of MySQL table without losing data with the help of ALTER
TABLE command. The syntax is as follows –

ALTER TABLE yourTableName MODIFY yourColumnName1 data type AFTER yourColumnName2;

ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY password varchar(20) AFTER id

DROP COLUMN Example

ALTER TABLE Persons DROP COLUMN DateOfBirth;

Alter Table Name:

ALTER TABLE old_table RENAME new_table;

DELETE TABLE VALUES

delete from newas where id=54;

truncate newtable;

SET SQL_SAFE_UPDATES = 0;

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