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<h1 align="center">SQL As Understood By SQLite</h1><p><a href="lang.html">[Top]</a></p><h2>ALTER TABLE</h2><h4><a href="syntaxdiagrams.html#alter-table-stmt">alter-table-stmt:</a></h4><blockquote> <img alt="syntax diagram alter-table-stmt" src="images/syntax/alter-table-stmt.gif"></img> </blockquote>
<p>SQLite supports a limited subset of ALTER TABLE.
The ALTER TABLE command in SQLite allows the user to rename a table
or to add a new column to an existing table. It is not possible
to rename a column, remove a column, or add or remove constraints from a table.
</p>
<p> The RENAME TO syntax is used to rename the table identified by
<i>[database-name.]table-name</i> to <i>new-table-name</i>.
This command
cannot be used to move a table between attached databases, only to rename
a table within the same database.</p>
<p> If the table being renamed has triggers or indices, then these remain
attached to the table after it has been renamed. However, if there are
any view definitions, or statements executed by triggers that refer to
the table being renamed, these are not automatically modified to use the new
table name. If this is required, the triggers or view definitions must be
dropped and recreated to use the new table name by hand.
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<p>If <a href="foreignkeys.html">foreign key constraints</a> are
<a href="pragma.html#pragma_foreign_keys">enabled</a> when a table is renamed, then any
<a href="syntaxdiagrams.html#foreign-key-clause">REFERENCES clauses</a> in any table (either the
table being renamed or some other table)
that refer to the table being renamed are modified to refer
to the renamed table by its new name.
<p> The ADD COLUMN syntax
is used to add a new column to an existing table.
The new column is always appended to the end of the list of existing columns.
The <a href="syntaxdiagrams.html#column-def">column-def</a> rule defines the characteristics of the new column.
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statement, with the following restrictions:
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<li>The column may not have a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE constraint.</li>
<li>The column may not have a default value of CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_DATE,
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, or an expression in parentheses.</li>
<li>If a NOT NULL constraint is specified, then the column must have a
default value other than NULL.
<li>If <a href="foreignkeys.html">foreign key constraints</a> are <a href="pragma.html#pragma_foreign_keys">enabled</a> and
a column with a <a href="syntaxdiagrams.html#foreign-key-clause">REFERENCES clause</a>
is added, the column must have a default value of NULL.
</ul>
<p>Note also that when adding a <a href="lang_createtable.html#ckconst">CHECK constraint</a>, the CHECK constraint
is not tested against preexisting rows of the table.
This can result in a table that contains data that
is in violation of the CHECK constraint. Future versions of SQLite might
change to validate CHECK constraints as they are added.</p>
<p> The execution time of the ALTER TABLE command is independent of
the amount of data in the table. The ALTER TABLE command runs as quickly
on a table with 10 million rows as it does on a table with 1 row.
</p>
<p>After ADD COLUMN has been run on a database, that database will not
be readable by SQLite version 3.1.3 and earlier.</p>
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