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ALTER TABLE .. DROP COLUMN

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A single column can be dropped from a table using the ALTER TABLE's DROP COLUMN clause:

// Drop a single column
create.alterTable("table").drop("column").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").drop("c")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica, YugabyteDB

ALTER TABLE t DROP c

ASE

ALTER TABLE t DROP c WITH NO DATACOPY

BigQuery, ClickHouse, Oracle, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Trino

ALTER TABLE t DROP COLUMN c

Hana

ALTER TABLE t DROP (c)

Redshift

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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