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