Oláh, Thursday, December 05, 2002, 2:44:24 PM, you wrote: OB> I want to copy one table's structure to another (non existing) table, but i OB> didn't find any command or example to do that. Exactly, the situation is the OB> following: OB> A dynamic database structure has tables. We want to copy any of tha tables OB> (while we don't know that table's structure) to another template table, OB> which isn't exist. So, that looks like on MsSQL:
OB> "SELECT * INTO [temptablename] FROM [sourcetablename] WHERE id is null" OB> and the SQL server creates a [temptablename] table with no records (or we OB> hope that ;) ) OB> But we can't do this on MySQL server, 'cause MySQL isn't know the OB> "SELECT...INTO" syntax, but in the INSERT...INTO syntax, we must count the OB> columns, which we wnat to create. (it's not good for me...) OB> Can somebody solve this problem? Or it's willn't work for the next version? OB> (uhh-uhh, thats the worst...) You can use: CREATE TABLE new_table SELECT * FROM old_table LIMIT 0; but you must create indexes manually. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
