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CREATE OR REPLACE SYNONYM
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Many dialects support a convenient OR REPLACE clause that allows for dropping any pre-existing synonym by the same name in a single statement.
create.createOrReplaceSynonym("s").for_("t").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
createOrReplaceSynonym("s").for_("t")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
DB2
CREATE OR REPLACE ALIAS s FOR t
H2, Hana, Oracle
CREATE OR REPLACE SYNONYM s FOR t
SQLServer
DROP SYNONYM IF EXISTS s; CREATE SYNONYM s FOR t
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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