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ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

Most dialects support altering a table to add a single column per statement.

// Adding a single column to a table. These statements are equivalent
create.alterTable("table").add("column", INTEGER).execute();
create.alterTable("table").addColumn("column", INTEGER).execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").add("c", INTEGER)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access, DB2, Firebird, Informix, Teradata

ALTER TABLE t ADD c integer

ASE, Sybase

ALTER TABLE t ADD c int NULL

Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Vertica, YugabyteDB

ALTER TABLE t ADD c int

BigQuery

ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c int64

ClickHouse

ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c Nullable(integer)

CockroachDB

ALTER TABLE t ADD c int4

Hana

ALTER TABLE t ADD (c integer)

Oracle, Snowflake

ALTER TABLE t ADD c number(10)

Trino

ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c int
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