Saturday, July 23, 2011

Alter Table Add Constraint Syntax


The SQL syntax for ALTER TABLE Add Constraint is
ALTER TABLE "table_name"
ADD [CONSTRAINT_NAME] [CONSTRAINT_TYPE] [CONSTRAINT_CONDITION]

Let's look at the example. Assuming our starting point is the "customer" table created in the CREATE TABLEsection:
Table customer
Column NameData Type
First_Namechar(50)
Last_Namechar(50)
Addresschar(50)
Citychar(50)
Countrychar(25)
Birth_Datedate

Assume we want to add a UNIQUE constraint to the "Address" column. To do this, we type in the following:
MySQL:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD CONSTRAINT con_first UNIQUE (first_name);
Oracle:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD CONSTRAINT con_first UNIQUE (first_name);
SQL Server:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD CONSTRAINT con_first UNIQUE (first_name);
where con_first is the name of the constraint.

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