Hang Liu

With over 25 years of experience in database technology, I've excelled across diverse industries such as Financial Services, CRM, Retail, Entertainment, and Healthcare. Currently serving as a Data Architect at Healthcare Logic in Gold Coast, Australia, I embarked on my BI/DW journey in 2005. Bringing 15+ years of expertise in BI/DW, data analysis, and report development, I leverage technologies like SQL Server, Azure, Oracle, and Power BI. Actively contributing to the global DW community, I share insights on the Kimball Forum: http://forum.kimballgroup.com/spa/hang

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Adding and Dropping Columns I

I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database: 

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList]
(
[CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1),
[CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use?

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