Can you roughly outline the schema of the two tables? If the key value doesn't have to match from the input to the final result, you can always insert into a list of fields, skipping the auto_increment/key column, and they will continue to be generated..
Assuming you have two tables with id_col, col2, col3: INSERT INTO table (col2, col3) SELECT col2, col3 FROM table2 WHERE id_col=1; Regards, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Eric J. Janus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2004 19:37 To: MySQL Subject: INSERT ... SELECT question I have a table with just about 100 columns, and I would like to duplicate a row exactly, except for one column, which is the AUTO_INCREMENT column. Using 'INSERT INTO tbl_name SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE id_col = 1' doesn't work, because it produces the following error: 'ERROR 1062: Duplicate entry '1' for key 1'. Because I'd like the application using this database to be simpler to maintain, I'd prefer to not have to change the code each time a field is added...so is there a way to duplicate a row, but still have it automatically assigned an value for the AUTO_INCREMENT column? Thanks, Eric -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
