How to Rename a Column in Snowflake

To store the data, every database uses rows and columns. Every row and column will have a particular name. Whenever we require, we can change the column name. This blog teaches you how to rename a column.

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Rename a Column in Snowflake

To rename the column in 

Snowflake, we use the “ALTER TABLE … RENAME COLUMN” command.

Syntax:

alter table table_name1 rename column old_name1 to new_name1

Example

alter table products1 rename column products_category1 to products1;

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Conclusion

“ALTER TABLE … RENAME COLUMN” command will rename the column as per our requirement. I hope this blog provides you with adequate information about that command.

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Keerthi Sai is a Senior Writer at Mindmajix with tons of content creation experience in the areas of cloud computing, BI, Perl Scripting. She also creates content on Salesforce, Microstrategy, and Cobit.

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