SET @s = (SELECT IF( (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_schema = DATABASE() AND table_name = 'Monitors' AND column_name = 'Encoder' ) > 0, "SELECT 'Column Encoder already exists in Monitors'", "ALTER TABLE `Monitors` ADD `Encoder` enum('auto','h264','libx264','h264_omx','h264_vaapi','mjpeg','mpeg1','mpeg2') AFTER `OutputCodec`" )); PREPARE stmt FROM @s; EXECUTE stmt; ALTER TABLE `Monitors` MODIFY `Encoder` enum('auto','h264','libx264', 'h264_omx', 'h264_vaapi', 'mjpeg','mpeg1','mpeg2'); ALTER TABLE `Monitors` MODIFY `OutputCodec` INT UNSIGNED default 0;