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ALTER TABLE .. DROP UNIQUE

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A UNIQUE constraint can be dropped from the table using the ALTER TABLE's DROP UNIQUE clause:

// Drop specific types of constraints
create.alterTable("table").dropUnique("uk").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").dropUnique("c")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, DB2, Derby, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica, YugabyteDB

ALTER TABLE t DROP CONSTRAINT c

CockroachDB

DROP INDEX c CASCADE

BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, MemSQL, SQLite, Trino

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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