Drop Column

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ALTER TABLE Employees
DROP COLUMN salary;

This will not only delete information from that column, but will drop the column salary from table employees(the column will no more exist).

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ALTER TABLE:

* ALTER TABLE

* Add Columns

* Drop Column

* Add Primary Key

* Drop Constraint

* Alter Column

* Add Constraint

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3 Example Databases and Tables

4 UPDATE

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11 Primary Keys

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15 Window Fnctions

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19 Functions Aggregate

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27 Foreign Keys

28 Finding Duplicates on a Column Subset with Detail

29 Sequence

30 Comments

31 Subqueries

32 Execution blocks

33 Stored Procedures

34 DROP Table

35 Row number

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37 CREATE FUNCTION

38 SQL Group by vs. Distinct

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45 Information Schema

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48 SQL Injection

49 Cascading Delete

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51 DROP or DELETE database

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54 XML

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56 Functions ScalarSingle Row

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