Question

I have a table – customers_old . I want to copy all the data from this table, so I will use mysqldump.

I need to restore data into a table , customers_new, which has column names different from customers_old table.

How do I do this?

INSERT..SELECT is only for manually copying each row?

Kindly advise

Thanks

Answer 1

You can do it with a simple ctas (Create Table AS) operation:

CREATE TABLE customers_new AS SELECT col1 AS new_col1, col2 AS new_col2 FROM customers_old

By aliasing your old columns you can change the column names in the new table.

see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-table-select.html