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ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Most dialects support altering a table to add a single column per statement.
// Adding a single column to a table. These statements are equivalent
create.alterTable("table").add("column", INTEGER).execute();
create.alterTable("table").addColumn("column", INTEGER).execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterTable("t").add("c", INTEGER)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access, DB2, Firebird, Informix, Teradata
ALTER TABLE t ADD c integer
ASE, Sybase
ALTER TABLE t ADD c int NULL
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Vertica, YugabyteDB
ALTER TABLE t ADD c int
BigQuery
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c int64
ClickHouse
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c Nullable(integer)
CockroachDB
ALTER TABLE t ADD c int4
Databricks
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN (c int)
Hana
ALTER TABLE t ADD (c integer)
Oracle, Snowflake
ALTER TABLE t ADD c number(10)
Trino
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c int
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