Question

Hi all I was just curious if I could do something like –

insert into Employee ( Select * from Employee where EmployeeId=1)

I just felt the need to do this a lot of times…so just was curious if there was any way to achieve it..

Answer 1

You can do something like that, but you cannot Select * if you want to change a column value:

Insert into employee ( employeeId, someColumn, someOtherColumn )
  Select 2, someColumn, someOtherColumn
  From employee
  Where employeeId=1

This would insert 2 as your new employeeId.