SQL Alter Column Name

Alter Column Name in SQL is used to change or modify the name of column in a table.

Understand with Example

The Tutorial explain you a simple example on SQL Alter Column Name. In this Example, create a table 'Stu_Table' using create statement. The insert into help you to add the records into created table 'Stu_Table'. The select statement retain you the records from table 'Stu_Table'. The ALTER table statement in SQL is used to modify the table 'Stu_Table'.

Create Table Stu_Table

create table Stu_Table(Stu_Id integer(2), Stu_Name varchar(15), 
Stu_Class  varchar(10) )

Insert data into Stu_Table

insert into Stu_Table (Stu_Id, Stu_Name) values(1,'Komal');
insert into Stu_Table (Stu_Id, Stu_Name) values(2,'Ajay');
insert into Stu_Table (Stu_Id, Stu_Name) values(3,'Rakesh');
insert into Stu_Table (Stu_Id, Stu_Name) values(4,'Bhanu');
insert into Stu_Table (Stu_Id, Stu_Name) values(5,'Santosh');

Stu_Table

+--------+----------+-----------+
| Stu_Id | Stu_Name | Stu_Class |
+--------+----------+-----------+
| 1      | Komal    | 10        |
| 2      | Ajay     | 10        |
| 3      | Rakesh   | 10        |
| 4      | Bhanu    | 10        |
| 5      | Santosh  | 10        | 
+--------+----------+-----------+

Syntax

The ALTER table statement in SQL is used to modify the table 'Stu_Table' and change keyword change the name of field to new name of field. The syntax used for Alter Table is given below:

Alter table table_name change old_column_name  new_column_name type size

Query

The Alter Table alter the table 'Stu_Table'. The change keyword change the column name of Stu_Id to Id in table 'Stu_Table'.

Alter table Stu_Table change Stu_Id Id varchar(10)

Stu_Table

+--------+----------+-----------+
| Id     | Stu_Name | Stu_Class |
+--------+----------+-----------+
| 1      | Komal    | 10        |
| 2      | Ajay     | 10        |
| 3      | Rakesh   | 10        |
| 4      | Bhanu    | 10        |
| 5      | Santosh  | 10        | 
+--------+----------+-----------+

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