> > Quite often I'd like to duplicate an existing table using SQL. Normally I'd > do a > > create table NewTable select * from OldTable; > > and if I don't want any data transferred I'll slap on a Limit 0 on the end > of the statement. > > This works fine except it doesn't create any indexes that OldTable had. Is > there a generic way to duplicate a table that includes the indexes? I don't > want to have to manually create indexes for it. take output from show create table OldTable; change the name of the table to New Table and, if you want to transfer data do insert into NewTable as select * from OldTable;
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