In the world of database management, ALTER TABLE operations are a crucial part of modifying database structures. MySQL, a popular database management system, offers online operations since version 5.6 ...

Changing storage engine; rebuild table; change file_per_table, ALTER COLUMN OF TABLE, Change auto-increment value, Renaming a MySQL table, ALTER table add INDEX, Changing the type of a primary key ...

Then skills table would have lots of rows with the playerid and the skills.<BR><BR>I've been using MSSQL lately so forgive me if MySQL doesn't do it, but also check into views, that might allow ...