alter column in sql code example

Example 1: sql add column

ALTER TABLE Customers
ADD Email varchar(255);

Example 2: sql server alter column

ALTER TABLE table_name 
ALTER COLUMN column_name new_data_type(size);

Example 3: sql alter column size

ALTER TABLE table_name
ALTER COLUMN column_name datatype;

Example 4: alter table modify column

-- ORACLE 18c
ALTER TABLE table_name 
MODIFY column_name datatype;

-- Example
ALTER TABLE product
MODIFY description VARCHAR2(500 char);

Example 5: alter column sql server

ALTER TABLE table_name

ALTER COLUMN column_name datatype;

Example 6: sql alter column

Changes the data type of a table’s column.
Example: In the ‘users’ table, make the column ‘incept_date’ into a
‘datetime’ type.
ALTER TABLE users
ALTER COLUMN incept_date datetime;