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Comments - CREATE TABLE

7 months ago Siavosh Kasravi
Re: CREATE TABLE

If I want to make a column nullable, why should I know the column's data type and put it in ALTER command string?

 
7 months ago Sergei Golubchik
Re: CREATE TABLE

SQL Standard has syntax

ALTER TABLE table_name ALTER column_name DROP NOT NULL

but MariaDB doesn't support it yet

 
7 months ago Alexander Keremidarski
Re: CREATE TABLE

When you CREATE TABLE you must know the column type. When you ALTER TABLE you can set certain properties with ALTER COLUMN without knowing the column type. Not that it is good idea to use any DDL statement without knowing what columns you have, but that's another topic.

 
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