Details
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Task
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Add support for Oracle's way of adding comments to tables, views, materialized views, columns, etc.
Syntax and Semantics for Oracle's COMMENT statement can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/database/122/SQLRF/COMMENT.htm#SQLRF01109
This is supported by all major DBMSs, not just Oracle. The only exception is SQL Server, but it has a system stored procedure for this.
Also, it is not just a compatibility feature. It allows to:
Dataedo CEO stated in a webinar that their tool doesn't add comments to MySQL because they don't want to use ALTER TABLE.