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  • Committer: Monty Taylor
  • Date: 2008-09-16 00:00:48 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 391.
  • Revision ID: monty@inaugust.com-20080916000048-3rvrv3gv9l0ad3gs
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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
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FIXME: add something about current implementation: i.e. write blocking copying alter table.