Question

I’ve 2 tables A, B in MySql DB.

Table A has 2 columns (user, pass)

Table B has additional 3 columns (user, pass, date1, date2, boolean)

I want to copy data from table A and insert it to table B with default values for additional columns.
What is the best way to achieve this? (sql is preferred)

Answer 1

check this url

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/insert-select.html

they have also posted an example below exactly like your requirement in the discussion section

mysql> INSERT INTO orders (customer_cust_id, orderdatetime, message, taxrate, shippingprice)
    -> SELECT '1', NOW(), null, taxrate, shippingprice FROM customer
    -> WHERE cust_id='1';
    Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

hope this helps