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intuited — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:16:23 -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.

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viralpatel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:42:18 -0000

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

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soodvarun — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:08:44 -0000

I was just looking for this!
thanks

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bryonbean — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:55:46 -0000

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

create table recipies_new select * from production.recipies;

Be aware that this method doesn't seem to duplicate any of the indexes from the original table into the new table. [Using MySQL 5.1]

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Name — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:58:08 -0000

The simplest solutions are the best. Thanks!

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Brandon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:30:15 -0000

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

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Chris — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:18:56 -0000

Very helpful! thank you :)

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Alfredas — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:59:53 -0000

It's working!!! Thank you very much! :-)

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jaxfor3 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:11:40 -0000

It worked without the 'INTO' for me.

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Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:23:41 -0000

Awesome, thanks!

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Thennarasu — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:02:44 -0000

It wont work without the keyword 'INTO'.

CORRECT IT AS ,

INSERT INTO recipes_new SELECT * FROM production.recipes;