ALTER

This box indicates whether the user referenced on the Database page has the ALTER privilege on tables selected in the Table column. To change the box's setting, click on the down arrow and select the setting that you want. You can select:

Yes

Grants the ALTER privilege without the Grant option (the right to grant the ALTER privilege on the selected table or tables to other users).

Grant

Grants the ALTER privilege with the Grant option.

No

Initially means that the user referenced on the Database page doesn't have the ALTER privilege on the selected table or tables. To cancel a request for the ALTER privilege on a table, select the table and change the setting from Yes or Grant to No.

The ALTER privilege on a table allows a user to:

• Add columns to the table

• Create or drop a primary key, a check constraint, or a trigger

• Create or drop a foreign key, provided that the user also has the REFERENCES privilege on the parent table

• Add or change a comment on the table

If you select multiple tables for which you specified different settings (for example, Yes for one table andNo for the others), the ALTER box is blank. But the settings that you specified remain in effect.

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