Thank you Thomas Sometimes I may add fields to the master table and if I write all the fields explicitely, I will need to modify the stored procedure. I want to ensure to make an exact copy. So what I want to is: 1- Get the structure of the master table
2- Create a table with the year-month-day postfix 3- Copy all data from the master to the backup table If it's possible to do this within a stored procedure, I will go that way. If not, I'll do it from a client program. Now I do these manually: -Copy the ddl text, change the table name to let's say TblA -Create table TblA_2014_04_01 (columns..) -Insert into TblA_2014_04_01 select * from TblA
