How to add a column at a specific position in Oracle?

2 years ago
Noah Thompson
1 minute

To add a column at a specific position in an Oracle database, you need to use the ALTER TABLE statement and specify the position of the new column. Here is an example:

ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD column_name datatype
AFTER existing_column_name;

In this example, table_name refers to the name of the table where a new column is to be added, column_name is the name of the new column to be added, datatype is the data type of the column, and existing_column_name specifies after which existing column the new column should be added.

To add a new column to the first position of a table, you can use the keyword FIRST.

ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD column_name datatype
FIRST;

This allows adding a column at a specified location in Oracle database.

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