UPDATE AND SET

STATEMENTS
UPDATE AND SET STATEMENTS
These statements are used to make changes in the data of
the table.
e.g. Consider the table student:
UPDATE AND SET STATEMENTS

e.g. to change the age of Roll number 1( Asha) to 25 in table

STUDENT the command is :
UPDATE AND SET STATEMENTS
 UPDATE AND SET STATEMENTS
To increase the marks of all the students by 3, whose
age is 20, the command is:
UPDATE AND SET STATEMENTS
 WHERE CLAUSE
• The WHERE clause allows to choose rows which
match the given condition like exact matching with a
given string value or a numeric value compared with
another number etc.
• The WHERE clause is used in many statements such as
UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT etc.
• It filters out the unwanted records from the list of
words and the query / command is performed on only
those records, which match the conditions given in
WHERE clause.
DELETE
This statement is used to delete row/s ( record/s) from a given
table.
With WHERE clause it will delete only those records which are
satisfying a given condition and without ‘WHERE’ clause it will
delete all the records from the table.
This statement will not delete a structure of a table.
➢mysql> DELETE FROM employees WHERE emp_no = 10;
➢ To delete all the rows from a table.
➢mysql> DELETE FROM employees;
DELETE
• To delete record of Roll Number 4 in table STUDENT:
DROP
This statement is used to delete databases, tables from a
databases or columns from a table.
To delete database office.
mysql> DROP database office;
To delete table employees.
mysql> DROP TABLE employees;
To delete column (age) from a table student.
mysql> ALTER TABLE student DROP age;
ALTER TABLE
STATEMENT
ALTER TABLE STATEMENT
• Alter table statement is used to add, modify and delete columns. i.e.
To make changes in the structure of the table. It is also used to
Rename the table.
• ADDING A COLUMN (ADD)
• CHANGING COLUMN SIZE(MODIFY)
• CHANGING COLUMN NAME(CHANGE)
• DELETING A COLUMN (DROP)
• DELETING/ ADDING PRIMARY KEY
• RENAMING THE TABLE (RENAME)
 ADDING A COLUMN (ADD)
• The ALTER statement is also used to ADD new columns
with respective data types to a table using the keyword
ADD.

mysql > ALTER TABLE student

ADD bd_group VARCHAR(5);

mysql > ALTER TABLE employee

ADD gender VARCHAR(10);
CHANGING COLUMN SIZE(MODIFY)
• If only the data type or other details of a column
name are to be changed and column name is to be
retained, then the keyword MODIFY can be used in the
ALTER statement.
mysql > ALTERTABLE student
MODIFY s_class VARCHAR(12);
mysql > ALTERTABLE employee
MODIFY salary INT;
CHANGING COLUMN NAME
(CHANGE)
• To change existing column names and to make
changes in their widths, the ALTER command is used,
using the keyword CHANGE.
Example: To change the column name s_adrs from table
student is to be changed as s_adress and its width is also
to be made as 30, then the required ALTER statement is
mysql > ALTERTABLE student
-> CHANGE s_adrs s_address VARCHAR(30);
DELETING A COLUMN (DROP)
This statement is used to delete databases, tables from a
databases or columns from a table.
To delete database office.
mysql> DROP database office;
To delete table employees.
mysql> DROP TABLE employees;
To delete columns from a table employees.
mysql> ALTER TABLE employees DROP acno;