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ALTER TABLE .. RENAME COLUMN
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Like most object types, columns can be renamed:
// Rename a column
create.alterTable("table").renameColumn("old_column").to("new_column").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterTable("t").renameColumn("c").to("d")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Snowflake, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
ALTER TABLE t RENAME COLUMN c TO d
ASE
EXEC sp_rename 't.c', d, 'column'
Derby, Hana, Informix
RENAME COLUMN c TO d
Firebird
ALTER TABLE t ALTER COLUMN c TO d
H2, HSQLDB
ALTER TABLE t ALTER COLUMN c RENAME TO d
MemSQL
ALTER TABLE t CHANGE c d
SQLServer
EXEC sp_rename 't.c', d, 'COLUMN'
Sybase, Teradata
ALTER TABLE t RENAME c TO d
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