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How to clone MySQL table

If you want to create a new MySQL table with the same structure as an existing table, you can use the following MySQL statement;

CREATE TABLE new_table LIKE source_table;

This will just create a new, empty table and does not copy the following;

To also copy the data from the source table, use the following INSERT statement after the table is created;

INSERT INTO new_table SELECT * FROM source_table;
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