MYSQL: How to copy an entire row from one table to another in mysql with the second table having one extra column?

Question

I have two tables with identical structure except for one column... Table 2 has that additional column in which i would insert the CURRENT_DATE()

I would like to cop

Answer 1

Just wanted to add this little snippet which works beautifully for me.

INSERT INTO your_target_table SELECT * FROM your_rescource_table WHERE id = 18;

And while I'm at it give a big shout out to Sequel Pro, if you're not using it I highly recommend downloading it...makes life so much easier

Answer 2

Hope this will help someone... Here's a little PHP script I wrote in case you need to copy some columns but not others, and/or the columns are not in the same order on both tables. As long as the columns are named the same, this will work. So if table A has [userid, handle, something] and tableB has [userID, handle, timestamp], then you'd "SELECT userID, handle, NOW() as timestamp FROM tableA", then get the result of that, and pass the result as the first parameter to this function ($z). $toTable is a string name for the table you're copying to, and $link_identifier is the db you're copying to. This is relatively fast for small sets of data. Not suggested that you try to move more than a few thousand rows at a time this way in a production setting. I use this primarily to back up data collected during a session when a user logs out, and then immediately clear the data from the live db to keep it slim.

 function mysql_multirow_copy($z,$toTable,$link_identifier) {
            $fields = "";
            for ($i=0;$i<mysql_num_fields($z);$i++) {
                if ($i>0) {
                    $fields .= ",";
                }
                $fields .= mysql_field_name($z,$i);
            }
            $q = "INSERT INTO $toTable ($fields) VALUES";
            $c = 0;
            mysql_data_seek($z,0); //critical reset in case $z has been parsed beforehand. !
            while ($a = mysql_fetch_assoc($z)) {
                foreach ($a as $key=>$as) {
                    $a[$key] = addslashes($as);
                    next ($a);
                }
                if ($c>0) {
                    $q .= ",";
                }
                $q .= "('".implode(array_values($a),"','")."')";
                $c++;
            }
            $q .= ";";
            $z = mysql_query($q,$link_identifier);
            return ($q);
        }

Answer 3

Alternatively, you can use Inner Queries to do so.

SQL> INSERT INTO <NEW_TABLE> SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM <OLD_TABLE>);

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

To refine the answer from Zed, and to answer your comment:

INSERT INTO dues_storage
SELECT d.*, CURRENT_DATE()
FROM dues d
WHERE id = 5;

See T.J. Crowder's comment

Answer 5

INSERT INTO dues_storage
SELECT field1, field2, ..., fieldN, CURRENT_DATE()
FROM dues
WHERE id = 5;

Answer 6

SET @sql = 
CONCAT( 'INSERT INTO <table_name> (', 
    (
        SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( CONCAT('`',COLUMN_NAME,'`') ) 
            FROM information_schema.columns 
            WHERE table_schema = <database_name>
                AND table_name = <table_name>
                AND column_name NOT IN ('id')
    ), ') SELECT ', 
    ( 
        SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT('`',COLUMN_NAME,'`')) 
        FROM information_schema.columns 
        WHERE table_schema = <database_name>
            AND table_name = <table_source_name>
            AND column_name NOT IN ('id')  
    ),' from <table_source_name> WHERE <testcolumn> = <testvalue>' );  

PREPARE stmt1 FROM @sql; 
execute stmt1;

Of course replace <> values with real values, and watch your quotes.