More on Alter

This lesson continues the discussion on altering various structures in a database.

We'll cover the following

More on Alter

It is hard to predict what indexes to create without observing the access patterns for an application. We can add, remove, or modify indexes after the application is deployed. Note that modifying indexes doesn’t change the data in the table.

Example Syntax

ALTER TABLE oldTableName

RENAME newTableName;

Connect to the terminal below by clicking in the widget. Once connected, the command line prompt will show up. Enter or copy and paste the command ./DataJek/Lessons/19lesson.sh and wait for the MySQL prompt to start-up.

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