The SQL syntax for ALTER TABLE Add Column is
ALTER TABLE "table_name"
ADD "column 1" "Data Type"
Let's look at the example. Assuming our starting point is the "customer" table created in the CREATE TABLEsection:
Table customer
Column Name | Data Type |
First_Name | char(50) |
Last_Name | char(50) |
Address | char(50) |
City | char(50) |
Country | char(25) |
Birth_Date | date |
Our goal is to add a column called "Gender". To do this, we key in:
MySQL:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD Gender char(1);
Oracle:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD Gender char(1);
SQL Server:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD Gender char(1);
Resulting table structure:
Table customer
Column Name | Data Type |
First_Name | char(50) |
Last_Name | char(50) |
Address | char(50) |
City | char(50) |
Country | char(25) |
Birth_Date | date |
Gender | char(1) |
Note that the new column Gender becomes the last column in the customer table.
It is also possible to add multiple columns. For example, if we want to add a column called "Email" and another column called "Telephone", we will type the following:
MySQL:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD (Email char(30), Telephone char(20));
Oracle:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD (Email char(30), Telephone char(20));
SQL Server:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD (Email char(30), Telephone char(20));
The table now becomes:
Table customer
Column Name | Data Type |
First_Name | char(50) |
Last_Name | char(50) |
Address | char(50) |
City | char(50) |
Country | char(25) |
Birth_Date | date |
Gender | char(1) |
char(30) | |
Telephone | char(20) |
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