How to add a column at a specific location in a table .any one Please suggest me.

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ALTER TABLE Customer ADD homePhonebck VARCHAR(15) AFTER homePhone

here i want a new column(homePhonebck) in customer table after homePhone column
please help

Posted 22-Jul-13 23:14pm

Alok.singh1166

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vinayoukuri 23-Jul-13 5:34am

Whar are you working on mysql or mssql?

[no name] 23-Jul-13 5:39am

Delete the columns and add them back in in the order you want. Or don't do this at all because it does not matter in the slightest what order the columns are in.

MuhammadUSman1 23-Jul-13 6:16am

You add in start,between or end it work fine.
so easy way to use is add it and in selection or insertion use as you want using column name.

Member 9848727 23-Jul-13 8:25am

It is not possible in msSql.. Once the table is created we cant alter the position of the columns in the table

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2013-07-23T06:48:00

It's not possible in direct way!

Indirect way is:
1) Create new table with the same collection of columns plus new one (at specific position),
2) Copy data into new table fro existing table,
3) Remove old table (existing one),
4) Rename new table

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