Delete a column from an existing MySQL table

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon March 18, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: MySQL

The SQL command in this recipe removes a column and the column’s data from an existing MySQL table.


To delete the column col_stuff from the table table_things, use the following SQL command:

ALTER TABLE 'table_things' DROP 'col_stuff'

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