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March 12th, 2004, 09:01 PM

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change column name

how do you change the name of a column in an sql table? i know you use alter but is it like ALTER TABLE mytable CHANGE Blah TO Blah1 or what?

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March 12th, 2004, 10:05 PM

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RE: change column name

From the manual:

ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE [COLUMN] old_col_name create_definition

Obviously, create_definition is how you specified the column when you created the table, just with the new name.

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