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Altering Tables ( Renaming Tables )



Renaming a table changes neither a table's structure nor its contents. The following statement renames table

t1 to t2:

ALTER TABLE t1 RENAME TO t2;

Another way to rename a table is by using the RENAME TABLE statement:

RENAME TABLE t1 TO t2;

RENAME TABLE has an advantage over ALTER TABLE in that it can perform multiple table renames in a single operation. One use for this feature is to swap the names of two tables:

RENAME TABLE t1 TO tmp, t2 TO t1, tmp TO t2;

For TEMPORARY tables, RENAME TABLE does not work. The ALTER TABLE command must be used instead.
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