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July 6th, 2002, 07:14 PM

qutaibah

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Adding a column

Hi everyone,

I need help adding a column to an exsisting MySQL table. is there a way to create the column, or do I have to re-create the table?

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Qutaibah

July 6th, 2002, 07:25 PM

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Hi qutaibah,

Welcome to the devArticle forums!

You can use the ALTER TABLE command for this. Read about it here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/L/ALTER_TABLE.html

Example:

ALTER TABLE tablename ADD COLUMN newcol

Now, to insert the new column after a column named for example id you would have to write:

ALTER TABLE tablename ADD COLUMN newcol AFTER id

There you go!

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