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Asked: 2026-06-03T15:53:23+00:00

Is there a column comment syntax that allows me to specify a column comment

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Is there a column comment syntax that allows me to specify a column comment directly where I declare the column in the create table statement (i.e. inline)? The 11g spec does not mention anything, on another page something is mentioned but I could not get it to work. There is a way to specify comments after creating the table, but I think it is annoying that the comment is separated from the field definition. I am looking for something like this (which does not work):

create table whatever (
 field number(15,0) primary key comment 'primary key generated from sequence pkseq',
 ...
)
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m afraid the “annoying” COMMENT ON syntax is the only way of doing this. SQL Server, PostgreSQL and DB2 use the same syntax (even though, as far as I know, there is no ANSI standard syntax for adding comments to database objects).

    MySQL supports the way you would like it to work. I agree it would be a nicer mechanism, but in my experience so few people use comments at all that I doubt Oracle will ever change it.

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