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ALTER TABLE RENAME

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ALTER TABLE RENAME - Amazon Athena

Renames a table.

Because the table metadata of an Iceberg table is stored in Amazon S3, you can update the database and table name of an Iceberg managed table without affecting underlying table information.

Synopsis

ALTER TABLE [db_name.]table_name RENAME TO [new_db_name.]new_table_name

Example

ALTER TABLE my_db.my_table RENAME TO my_db2.my_table2

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