SQL to add column and comment in table in single command

Question

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         


        

Answer 1

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.

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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> desc sys.com$
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
 OBJ#                                      NOT NULL NUMBER
 COL#                                               NUMBER
 COMMENT$                                           VARCHAR2(4000)

SQL>

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.