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ALTER TABLE .. DROP COLUMNS
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Multiple columns can be dropped from a table using the ALTER TABLE's DROP COLUMNS clause:
// Drop several columns in one go
create.alterTable("table").drop("column1", "column2").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterTable("t").drop("c1", "c2")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
ASE
ALTER TABLE t DROP c1, c2 WITH NO DATACOPY
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Firebird, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Teradata, YugabyteDB
ALTER TABLE t DROP c1, DROP c2
BigQuery, ClickHouse
ALTER TABLE t DROP COLUMN c1, DROP COLUMN c2
Databricks, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
ALTER TABLE t DROP COLUMN c1, c2
DB2
ALTER TABLE t DROP c1 DROP c2
H2, Snowflake
ALTER TABLE t DROP c1, c2
Hana, Informix, Oracle
ALTER TABLE t DROP (c1, c2)
Access, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, HSQLDB, Redshift, SQLite, Sybase, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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