Atomically replace a view with a new view defined by a SELECT statement. ALTER VIEW is an online operation and will not cause concurrently executing queries to fail.

Syntax

ALTER
    [DEFINER = { user | CURRENT_USER }]
    VIEW view_name [(column_list)]
    AS select_statement

Remarks

• ALTER VIEW atomically replaces view view_name with a new view defined by select_statement.
• ALTER VIEW privileges are granted only to the user who created the view and to SUPER users. If a SUPER user alters a view, that user commandeers ALTER privileges from the user who created the view.
• The DEFINER clause is used to modify the user to be used for security checks when a view is referenced by a query. While modifying the DEFINER, the view body must be specified in the query.
• The user who runs ALTER DEFINER..VIEW must have the SUPER permission.

Examples

ALTER VIEW view1 AS SELECT * FROM customers WHERE user_id LIKE "CUS%";

ALTER DEFINER=`user7`@`127.0.0.1` VIEW view1 AS SELECT * FROM customers WHERE user_id LIKE "CUS%";

Related Topics

• DROP VIEW
• CREATE VIEW

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