MySQL arrange existing table columns

Question

How can I change the position of a certain existing column in MySQL table?

Ex: I want to move the column username from its current position to instead be after all the columns or I want it before any certain column in my table.

Answer 1

You can change the order of columns if you like.

If your username column is varchar(255) then:

alter table `mytable`  change column username username varchar(255) after `somecolumn`; 

If it helps to better read a table definition, then why not?

Answer 2

Thanks guys for all of your response, I'm already done with it.

ALTER TABLE tbl_user MODIFY gender char(1) AFTER username; 

Well it's just like organizing your table right? you don't want your primary key field to be on the last order of your table, at least I know how to coonfigure it if ever I encounter that problem, I'm trying to get used in text based database and not using gui for now.

Thanks again guys :)