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ALTER VIEW .. COMMENT

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

This statement allows for changing the comment associated with a view. It is an alias for the COMMENT ON VIEW statement

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterView("v").comment("new comment")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, Firebird, Hana, Postgres, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

COMMENT ON VIEW v IS 'new comment'

BigQuery

ALTER VIEW v SET OPTIONS (DESCRIPTION = 'new comment')

DB2, DuckDB, H2, HSQLDB, Oracle

COMMENT ON TABLE v IS 'new comment'

Snowflake

ALTER VIEW v SET COMMENT = 'new comment'

SQLServer

BEGIN TRY
  DECLARE @u varchar(max) = schema_name();
  EXEC sp_addextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 'new comment', 'schema', @u, 'view', 'v', DEFAULT, DEFAULT
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
  EXEC sp_updateextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 'new comment', 'schema', @u, 'view', 'v', DEFAULT, DEFAULT
END CATCH

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, Exasol, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite

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