Hello,
We really don't want to force column order to be identical by default because this will necessitate that the table be rebuilt and that would have a significant performance hit (building a table and copying all of the data back) versus simply issuing an ALTER TABLE to add a new column.
We really don't want to force column order to be identical by default because this will necessitate that the table be rebuilt and that would have a significant performance hit (building a table and copying all of the data back) versus simply issuing an ALTER TABLE to add a new column.