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Adding new column after a specific column and defining a default in MySQL?
You need to follow some steps to add a new column after a specific column and defining default value. In order to achieve this, you need to use ALTER command. Let us first create a table −
mysql> create table DemoTable ( StudentId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, StudentFirstName varchar(20), StudentAge int, StudentCountryName varchar(100) ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.21 sec)
Let us check the description of table −
mysql> desc DemoTable;
This will produce the following output −
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | StudentId | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | StudentFirstName | varchar(20) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentAge | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentCountryName | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | | +--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 4 rows in set (0.15 sec)
Following is the query to add a new column after a specific column and defining a default. Let us add a new column “StudentLastName” after column name “StudentFirstName”. The default value of StudentLastName column is “Doe”.
mysql> alter table DemoTable add StudentLastName varchar(20) NOT NULL after StudentFirstName; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.91 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> alter table DemoTable alter StudentLastName set default 'Doe'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.32 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
Let us check the description of table once again.
mysql> desc DemoTable;
This will produce the following output −
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | StudentId | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | StudentFirstName | varchar(20) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentLastName | varchar(20) | NO | | Doe | | | StudentAge | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentCountryName | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | | +--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 5 rows in set (0.01 sec)
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