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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, Hana, Postgres, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
COMMENT ON VIEW v IS 'new comment'
BigQuery
ALTER VIEW v SET OPTIONS (DESCRIPTION = 'new comment')
DB2, DuckDB, 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
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, Exasol, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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