ALTER VIEW .. COMMENT
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
This statement allows for changing the comment associated with a view. It is an alias for the COMMENT ON VIEW statement
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterView("v").comment("new comment")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- AURORA_POSTGRES, FIREBIRD, POSTGRES, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB COMMENT ON VIEW v IS 'new comment' -- BIGQUERY ALTER VIEW v SET OPTIONS (DESCRIPTION = 'new comment') -- DB2, H2, HSQLDB, ORACLE COMMENT ON TABLE v IS 'new comment' -- SNOWFLAKE ALTER VIEW v SET COMMENT = 'new comment' -- SQLSERVER BEGIN TRY DECLARE @u varchar(max) = schema_name(); EXEC sp_addextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 'new comment', 'schema', @u, 'view', 'v', DEFAULT, DEFAULT END TRY BEGIN CATCH EXEC sp_updateextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 'new comment', 'schema', @u, 'view', 'v', DEFAULT, DEFAULT END CATCH -- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, HANA, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, REDSHIFT, -- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SYBASE /* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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