ALTER DATABASE .. RENAME
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Like most object types, databases can be renamed:
// Renaming the database
create.alterDatabase("old_database").renameTo("new_database").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterDatabase("d").renameTo("e")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
ALTER DATABASE d RENAME TO e
ClickHouse
RENAME DATABASE d TO e
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, DB2, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
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