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COMMENT ON COLUMN
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
commentOnColumn(name("table", "column")).is("the comment")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Oracle, Postgres, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
COMMENT ON COLUMN table.column IS 'the comment'
ClickHouse
ALTER TABLE table COMMENT COLUMN column 'the comment'
Snowflake
ALTER TABLE table ALTER COLUMN column COMMENT 'the comment'
SQLServer
BEGIN TRY DECLARE @u varchar(max) = schema_name(); EXEC sp_addextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 'the comment', 'schema', @u, 'table', 'table', 'column', 'column' END TRY BEGIN CATCH EXEC sp_updateextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 'the comment', 'schema', @u, 'table', 'table', 'column', 'column' END CATCH
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, Derby, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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