Inserting new columns in the middle of a table?

Question

When one uses \"ALTER TABLE tab ADD col\", the new column gets added to the end of the table. For example:

TABLE: TAB
COL_1 COL_2 COL_4

ALTER TABLE TAB ADD          


        

Answer 1

As per my small research the only way is to create the views of the previous table in a required order of columns or else recreate the table from the scratch and in some sql query tools the 'AFTER' keyword might work".