How to remove a column from an existing table?

Question

How to remove a column from an existing table?

I have a table MEN with Fname and Lname

I need to remove the Lnam

Answer 1

In SQL Server 2016 you can use new DIE statements.

ALTER TABLE Table_name DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS Column_name

The above query is re-runnable it drops the column only if it exists in the table else it will not throw error.

Instead of using big IF wrappers to check the existence of column before dropping it you can just run the above DDL statement