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# AlterTableMetadataRequest

> AlterTableMetadataRequest — Kinetica Node.js API

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  <div className="tsd-signature"><span className="tsd-signature-keyword">interface</span> <span className="tsd-kind-interface">AlterTableMetadataRequest</span> <span className="tsd-signature-symbol">{"{"}</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#metadata_map">metadata\_map</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">Record</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\<</span><span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">,</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">></span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#options">options</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">?:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">Record</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\<</span><span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">,</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">></span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /> <a className="tsd-kind-property" href="#table_names">table\_names</a><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\[]</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">;</span><br /><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">{"}"}</span></div>

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      <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1130">src/types.ts:1130</a></li>
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            <div className="tsd-index-list"><a href="#metadata_map" className="tsd-index-link"><span>metadata\_map</span></a> <a href="#options" className="tsd-index-link"><span>options?</span></a> <a href="#table_names" className="tsd-index-link"><span>table\_names</span></a> </div>
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        <div className="tsd-signature"><span className="tsd-kind-property">metadata\_map</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">:</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">Record</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">\<</span><span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">,</span> <span className="tsd-signature-type">string</span><span className="tsd-signature-symbol">></span></div>

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          <p>A map which contains the metadata of the tables that are to be updated. Note that only one map is provided for all the tables; so the change will be applied to every table. If the provided map is empty, then all existing metadata for the table(s) will be cleared.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1134">src/types.ts:1134</a></li>
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          <p>Optional parameters.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1136">src/types.ts:1136</a></li>
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          <p>Names of the tables whose metadata will be updated, in \[schema\_name.]table\_name format, using standard name resolution rules. All specified tables must exist, or an error will be returned.</p>
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            <li>Defined in <a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-typescript/blob/master/src/types.ts#L1132">src/types.ts:1132</a></li>
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