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ALTER TABLE .. ALTER COLUMN .. SET GENERATED

Supported by ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A column GENERATED expression can be added to a computed column using the ALTER TABLE's SET GENERATED clause on a column:

// Specify a new generated expression for a computed column
create.alterTable("table").alter("column").setGeneratedAlwaysAs(1).execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").alter("c").setGeneratedAlwaysAs(1)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, Postgres

ALTER TABLE t ALTER c SET EXPRESSION AS (1)

DB2

BEGIN
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    SET INTEGRITY FOR t OFF
  ';
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    ALTER TABLE t ALTER c SET EXPRESSION AS (1)
  ';
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    SET INTEGRITY FOR t IMMEDIATE CHECKED FORCE GENERATED
  ';
END

Firebird

ALTER TABLE t ALTER c GENERATED ALWAYS AS (1)

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Spanner, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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