At 11:10 -0700 10/15/02, David Yee wrote:
>Hi all. What's the quickest way to copy a table so that all column
>attributes such as auto_increment and primary key along with all indexes get
>copied over? I like using:
>
>create table new_table select * from old_table
>
>But it doesn't copy any indexes or those special attributes I mentioned over
>to the new table. I know this can be done using mysqldump but I'm wondering
>if there's something quicker (less involved). Thanks.
mysqldump uses the SHOW CREATE TABLE statement. Hard to use this output
in a pure SQL environment, but if you issue it from within a program,
you can use the output as you like.
>David
