How to move a column in MySQL

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Masao

Move a column after some other column

mysql> ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY COLUMN mycolumn INT AFTER someothercolumn;

Move a column to the first position

mysql> ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY COLUMN mycolumn INT FIRST;

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One Response to How to move a column in MySQL

  1. Tom Buchok says:
    June 11, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    Thanks a lot for this. Exactly what I needed.

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