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  • Committer: Monty Taylor
  • Date: 2010-06-20 03:22:53 UTC
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Merged in constification of TableIdentifier from Brian.

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ALTER TABLE
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An ALTER statement modifies the definition (structure) of a table inside Drizzle. 
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The types of objects that can be altered depends on which RDBMS is being used. 
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The ALTER TABLE statement is used to change a table definition by: 
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1) Adding, dropping, modifying table columns 
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2) Adding and dropping constraints 
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3) Enabling and Disabling constraints 
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4) Rename a table