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How to create a new column in MySQL? using SQL ADD COLUMN statement.
To add a new column to an existing table, you use the ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN statement.
ALTER TABLE statement is used to add, delete, or modify columns in an existing table and also used to add and drop various constraints on a table.

Syntax:

ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD column_name datatype;

Let's look at the "Users" table: We will have five columns as: "id", "first_name", "last_name", "country" and "email":

ID First Name Last Name Country Email
1 Clark Kent USA clarkkent@mail.com
2 Pire Joveau France pierej@mail.com
3 Nicky Anderson USA nickya@mail.com
4 Pepe Martínez Spain martinezpeper@mail.com
5 Peter Parker SUA peterparker@mail.com

 

SQL add columns to a table - SQL ALTER

Let's add a column named "user_name" to the "Users" sql table above:

ALTER TABLE Users
ADD user_name varchar(150);

Output displayed:

ID First Name Last Name Country Email UserName
1 Clark Kent USA clarkkent@mail.com
2 Pire Joveau France pierej@mail.com
3 Nicky Anderson USA nickya@mail.com
4 Pepe Martínez Spain martinezpeper@mail.com
5 Peter Parker SUA peterparker@mail.com

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SQL add columns after to a table - SQL ALTER

Let's add a column named "user_name" after a certain specified column to the "Users" sql table above. Because we specify the position of the "user_name" column explicitly after the name column, MySQL will obey this.

ALTER TABLE Users
ADD COLUMN user_name varchar(150) AFTER last_name;

Output displayed:

ID First Name Last Name user_name Country Email
1 Clark Kent USA clarkkent@mail.com
2 Pire Joveau France pierej@mail.com
3 Nicky Anderson USA nickya@mail.com
4 Pepe Martínez Spain martinezpeper@mail.com
5 Peter Parker SUA peterparker@mail.com

 

SQL add more columns to a table - SQL ALTER TABLE

You can add two more columns as "user_name" and "date" to the Users table at the same time.

ALTER TABLE Users
ADD COLUMN user_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
ADD COLUMN date datetime NOT NULL;

 



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