Something like
ALTER TABLE [TABLE] MODIFY [COLUMN] col_name column_definition
[FIRST | AFTER col_name]
shoudl work

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/alter-table.html


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jerry Schwartz
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> Is there any reasonable way of re-arranging the order of columns in a table
> without losing their data? The best I could come up with was to copy the
> table, empty it, and then do an INSERT . SELECT specifying the new order of
> the fields.
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