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title: "How to add a column and modify its data?"  
description: "How to add a column and modify its data?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2023-07-30  
updated: 2023-07-31  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159361/how-to-add-a-column-and-modify-its-data  
category: "mssql server"  
tags: ["mssql server", "sql server", "sql", "database table"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to add a column and modify its data?

How to [add](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12983/add-address-in-textbox-when-page-is-load-and-if-i-search-address-in-textbox-show-in-map-by-javascript) a [column](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33860/how-to-calculate-column-summary-in-sql-server) and modify its [data](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13050/salesforce-aiming-to-dominate-predictive-analytics-with-data-science)?

## Replies

### Reply by Aryan Kumar

Sure, here is how to add a column and modify its data in SQL:

SQL

```plaintext
ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD column_name data_type;

UPDATE table_name
SET column_name = new_value
WHERE condition;
```

For example, to add a column called `Country` to the `Customers` table and modify its data, you would use the following code:

SQL

```plaintext
ALTER TABLE Customers
ADD Country VARCHAR(255);

UPDATE Customers
SET Country = 'United States'
WHERE Country IS NULL;
```

This code will first add a column called `Country` to the `Customers` table. The `Country` column will be a `VARCHAR` with a maximum length of 255 characters.

The second part of the code will update the `Country` column for all rows where the `Country` column is null. The `Country` column will be set to `United States` for all rows where the `Country` column is null.

To run the code, you can copy and paste it into a SQL query tool, such as SQL Server Management Studio or MySQL Workbench.


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