Question

I want to clone a table in DB2 . My requirement is to create the new table using base table and In the new table I need same number of columns and I don’t need the data of old table.please help me how to achieve this.

Thanks in Advance ,

Raj

Answer 1

In DB2, you can use this syntax:

CREATE TABLE new_table LIKE old_table

This will create a table of the same type as the original table. I doubt that indexes/keys are copied, too, though.

Here’s some documentation on that topic