Question

How can I make a copy values from one column to another?

I have:

Database name: list

-------------------
number | test
-------------------
123456 | somedata
123486 | somedata1
232344 | 34

I want to have:

Database name: list

----------------
number | test
----------------
123456 | 123456
123486 | 123486
232344 | 232344

What MySQL query should I have?

Answer 1

Short answer for the code in question is:

UPDATE `table` SET test=number

Here table is the table name and it’s surrounded by grave accent (aka back-ticks `) as this is MySQL convention to escape keywords (and TABLE is a keyword in that case).

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BEWARE!

This is pretty dangerous query which will wipe everything in column test in every row of your table replacing it by the number (regardless of it’s value)

It is more common to use WHERE clause to limit your query to only specific set of rows:

UPDATE `products` SET `in_stock` = true WHERE `supplier_id` = 10