We can use the ‘ALTER TABLE‘ statement in oracle to add columns to a table using ADD keyword.
It is fairly straight forward.
We can specify column details and constraints if any,
See the below example.

SQL> create table MYTABLE(name varchar2(100),age number);

Table created

Now let us use the ‘<span style=”font-weight: bold;”>ALTER TABLE</span>’ statement to add new columns to the table <span style=”font-weight: bold;”>MYTABLE</span>.

SQL> ALTER TABLE MYTABLE add(id number NOT NULL,address varchar2(100));

Table altered

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