Duplicate / Copy records in the same MySQL table

Question

I have been looking for a while now but I can not find an easy solution for my problem. I would like to duplicate a record in a table, but of course, the unique primary key

Answer 1

Slight variation, main difference being to set the primary key field ("varname") to null, which produces a warning but works. By setting the primary key to null, the auto-increment works when inserting the record in the last statement.

This code also cleans up previous attempts, and can be run more than once without problems:

DELETE FROM `tbl` WHERE varname="primary key value for new record";
DROP TABLE tmp;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp SELECT * FROM `tbl` WHERE varname="primary key value for old record";
UPDATE tmp SET varname=NULL;
INSERT INTO `tbl` SELECT * FROM tmp;