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Databases

Youssef Zaki
Youssef Zaki
7,768 Points
Posted by Youssef Zaki
Youssef Zaki
7,768 Points

FIRST code ?

ALTER TABLE movies ADD COLUMN id INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY FIRST;

If i write the code in this form without FIRST , can i later on fix it to be the the first column or i have to delete the whole column ? ALTER TABLE movies ADD COLUMN id INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY;

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/database-foundations/joining-relational-data-between-tables-in-sql/keys-and-autoincrementing-values

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Yes, you can change the column order later.

Now this is assuming you are using MySQL as shown in the videos. Other databases might have a different syntax or may not allow column ordering at all. But for MySQL:

ALTER TABLE movies MODIFY id INTEGER FIRST;