Real Life Scenario Example
Imagine you’re developing an app for a bookstore or a library management system where you have a database to store information about books. Now, let’s say you’re introducing a new feature or conducting tests on the existing book table. Moreover, you want to avoid any risk of changes or altering the original book table. In this scenario, you can create a clone table in SQL.
SQL Cloning or Copying a Table
Cloning or copying a table in SQL is a common task encountered in database management. Whether you’re creating backups, performing testing, or need to duplicate a table structure for various purposes, knowing how to effectively clone or copy a table is essential. In this article, we’ll explore different methods and good practices for achieving this in SQL.
Cloning tables is an operation in SQL that allows us to make a copy of an existing table. The clone table can be just the structure of the original table without any data or an exact copy of the original table.
Note: This Article will be following the MySQL Syntax but cloning operations can be done in other Relational Database Management systems (RDBMS) such as Postgre SQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, and syntax may follow as per their document.
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