John Wards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a a database lest say called "test" which is about a gig in size. I
> want to take a copy of that database and call it "test2" and have it running
> on the same server.
>
> I could just do a dump and then insert the dump back in but this seems a
> rather long way of doing it. I had a search on the mysql.com site but can't
> find anything.
>
You can use CREATE ... SELECT statement:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CREATE_TABLE.html
but you should create indexes manually.
You can also change output of SHOW CREATE TABLE test and change table name to test2
and then use INSERT .. SELECT statement.
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