How to add a column to an existing table in MySQL?

ALTER TABLE students ADD COLUMN email VARCHAR(100);
ALTER TABLE students ADD COLUMN status VARCHAR(10) DEFAULT 'active' AFTER name;

Existing rows get NULL (or the default value) in the new column. To remove it use ALTER TABLE students DROP COLUMN email;. See MySQL ALTER TABLE.


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