Re: How-to copy a column

2005-01-31 Thread beacker
>I have a table (table1) which has 4 columns, I want to copy all the >contents of col1 into col2. >Col3 is the primary unique key, so the copy has to keep the data matched >with col3. Sounds like what you want to do is update table1 set col2 = col1; which will copy the contents of

Re: How-to copy a column

2005-01-31 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi! Am Mo, den 31.01.2005 schrieb Syed Ali um 17:14: > Does anyone know the easiest way to copy a column in mysql? > > I have a table (table1) which has 4 columns, I want to copy all the > contents of col1 into col2. > Col3 is the primary unique key, so the copy has to keep the data matched > wi

RE: How-to copy a column

2005-01-31 Thread Tom Crimmins
[snip] Does anyone know the easiest way to copy a column in mysql? I have a table (table1) which has 4 columns, I want to copy all the contents of col1 into col2. Col3 is the primary unique key, so the copy has to keep the data matched with col3. [/snip] UPDATE table1 SET col2=col1; --- Tom Cr