Comments on: Copy an existing MySQL table to a new table

By: intuited

intuited — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:16:23 +0000

yeah the single-line command is a bad scene. Even the two-line command will have issues in some cases, eg if you have foreign key restraints or are inserting rows with autoincrement keys that equal 0 (they get incremented to 1). I wrapped the statements in code used by mysqldump.
Also doing a mysqldump, replacing the table names in the statements, and then loading the resulting dump is another way to do this. It's actually probably more robust than doing it with insert..select, but will be slower and a bit tricky.

By: viralpatel

viralpatel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:42:18 +0000

It creates a duplicate table but does not copy the constraints and other meta details of a table

By: soodvarun

soodvarun — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:08:44 +0000

I was just looking for this!
thanks

By: bryonbean

bryonbean — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:55:46 +0000

This could also be done in one step with the following:

create table recipies_new select * from production.recipies;

I'm using MySQL 5.1

By: Name

Name — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:58:08 +0000

The simplest solutions are the best. Thanks!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:30:15 +0000

Thanks a lot, this saved me a lot of time!

By: Sleeping_Troll

Sleeping_Troll — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:27:28 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:18:56 +0000

Very helpful! thank you :)

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:50:53 +0000

Exactly what I was looking for, Thanks!