DATABASE COLUMN REFRESH VIA REPLACEMENT

According to an example, a system may receive a refresh column command for a column-oriented database. The refresh column command may identify a table in the column-oriented database and a denormalized column in the table. The system may determine column definitions for the column, generate a query to populate values from a data source associated with the column into the column based on the column definitions, and may execute the query to replace entire set of existing column values with the data source values.