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What is ALTER command? How we use it to Add a new column?

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What is ALTER command? How we use it to Add a new column?
posted Jul 24, 2015 by Kunal Kapoor

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ALTER command is used to modify the structure of table. By using alter we can add, modify & delete columns. to change the data type or decrease the size of a column the column must be empty. For ALTER a table we need ALTER, INSERT & CREATE privileges.
Ex: ALTER table

ADD type(size);
answer Jul 27, 2015 by Arun Gowda
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