Subject: Re: Reordering the fields in a table
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Wells Oliver schrieb am 17.04.2021 um 00:28:
> If it helps the cause, I would love this too, in addition to having
> the ability to ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN with the ability to specify
> where in the column order. This ends up being a bigger frustration
> for a lot of people than it should be, and maybe it's a touch of OCD,
> but most RDBMS packages allow this

"Most" seems a bit of a stretch.
To my knowledge it's only supported in MySQL, Firebird and Informix.

You can't do this in Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, Ingres, Vertica or SAP Hana.