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MySQL Tutorial - Delete an Existing Column in a Table

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How To Delete an Existing Column in a Table?

If you have an existing column in a table and you do not need that column any more, you can delete it with "ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN" statement. Here is a tutorial script to delete an existing column:

mysql> ALTER TABLE tip DROP COLUMN create_date;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.48 sec)
Records: 1  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> SELECT * FROM tip;
+----+-------------+-------------------------+--------+
| id | subject     | description             | author |
+----+-------------+-------------------------+--------+
|  1 | Learn MySQL | Visit dev.fyicenter.com | NULL   |
+----+-------------+-------------------------+--------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

As you can see the column "create_date" is gone.

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1. What Are DDL Statements?
2. How To Create a New Table?
3. What Happens If You No CREATE Privilege in a Database?
4. How To Get a List of All Tables in a Database?
5. How To Get a List of Columns in an Existing Table?
6. How To See the CREATE TABLE Statement of an Existing Table?
7. How To Create a New Table by Selecting Rows from Another Table?
8. How To Add a New Column to an Existing Table?
9. How To Delete an Existing Column in a Table?
10. How To Rename an Existing Column in a Table?
11. How To Rename an Existing Table?
12. How To Drop an Existing Table?
13. How To Create an Index for a Given Table?
14. How To Get a List of Indexes of a Given Table?
15. How To Drop an Existing Index?
16. How To Create a New View?
17. How To Drop an Existing View?