INSERT INTO … SELECT without detailing all columns

Question

How do you insert selected rows from table_source to table_target using SQL in MySQL where:

• Both tables have the same schema

Answer 1

You can probably do it with prepared statements.

PREPARE table_target_insert FROM 'INSERT INTO table_target SELECT ? FROM table_source';
SET @cols:='';
SELECT @cols:=GROUP_CONCAT(IF(column_name = 'id','NULL',column_name) separator ",") FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name='table_source';
EXECUTE table_target_insert USING @cols;