Hi Monks,

I'm working within a perl script to copy data from one mysql table to another. The problem is though that the second table is not exactly the same as the first, it has three extra columns at the beginning.

I am aware of how to do a direct copy
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("insert into $table select * from $oldtable");

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But dont know how to do the above for tables that dont match up. I could pull each value from each column and manually create the insert for the new table, but its a big table and was hoping there would be an easier way...
maybe something like... 
INSERT INTO `$db`.`$table` VALUES ( '', 'author', '', SELECT * FROM `$
+db`.`$oldtable` )

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Can anyone help me out?

Cheers,
Reagen

In reply to Perl/MySQL table data copy by rsiedl

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