ALTER USER or DATABASE Statement

Changes the password for an existing user or for a database.

Syntax

ALTER DATABASE PASSWORD newpasswordoldpassword

ALTER USER user PASSWORD newpasswordoldpassword

The ALTER USER or DATABASE statement has these parts:

Part	Description
user	The name of a user to be added to the workgroup information file.
newpassword	The new password to be associated with the specified user or database name.
oldpassword	The existing password to be associated with the specified user or group name.