SQL to add column and comment in table in single command

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I am using Oracle 11g for my web application  I want to add a column and a comment to an existing table  I can do that easily with the below commands  ALTER TABLE product ADD product description VARCHAR2 20    and   COMMENT ON COLUMN product product description       IS  This is comment for the column     But I want to do above task in single command  I searched on internet for a command to add a column and comment in a single command but I couldn t find  I wonder if this is possible  Any suggestions would be highly appreciated

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No  you can t   There s no reason why you would need to  This is a one-time operation and so takes only an additional second or two to actually type and execute   If you re adding columns in your web application this is more indicative of a flaw in your data-model as you shouldn t need to be doing it     In response to your comment that a comment is a column attribute  it may seem so but behind the scenes Oracle stores this as an attribute of an object   SQL gt  desc sys com   Name                                      Null     Type  ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------  OBJ                                       NOT NULL NUMBER  COL                                                NUMBER  COMMENT                                            VARCHAR2 4000   SQL gt    The column is optional and sys col  does not contain comment information   I assume  I have no knowledge  that this was done in order to only have one system of dealing with comments rather than multiple

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Query to add column with comment are    alter table table name  add   NISFLAG     NUMBER 1 0     comment on column  ELIXIR   PRD INFO 1   NISPRODGSTAPPL  is  comment here   commit

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You can use below query to update or create comment on already created table   SYNTAX   COMMENT ON COLUMN TableName ColumnName IS  comment text     Example   COMMENT ON COLUMN TAB SAMBANGI MY COLUMN IS  This is a comment on my column

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Add comments for two different columns of the EMPLOYEE table    COMMENT ON EMPLOYEE       WORKDEPT IS  see DEPARTMENT table for names        EDLEVEL IS  highest grade level passed in school

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