Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations wOOdy-Soft on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Field renaming in an existing table

Status
Not open for further replies.
Inandjo

Inandjo

Programmer
Dec 7, 2001
46
FR
I have a table I want to alter (i.e. change the field name)
Is there a SQL syntax to perform this operation?
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
ALTER TABLE A CHANGE A B VARCHARS( 20 )

So, using above syntax just replace A with your current column name, replace B with the new column name, then give the column definition, here I used VARCHARS( 20 ) for demo.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Loomis
  • Question
stepping through table rows
Replies
7
Views
408
rashmibala
R
boylesg
  • Locked
  • Question
Can't sort my table by a particular column, records are returned in autinc order.
Replies
4
Views
664
spamjim
spamjim
lupidol
  • Locked
  • Question
Cannot create new table in mySQL 3
Replies
6
Views
773
lupidol
lupidol
Marclem
  • Locked
  • Question
Joining 4 tables issue
Replies
11
Views
518
Andrzejek
Andrzejek
EdLentz
  • Locked
  • Question
How do I use a keyword in a query??
Replies
6
Views
868
EdLentz
EdLentz

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top