How to clone/copy a table and its data, triggers and indexes?

In order to create a new table with its data, triggers and indexes just like the old table, we need to run the following two queries

CREATE TABLE new_table LIKE old_table;
INSERT new_table SELECT * from old_table;

Example

mysql> Create table employee(ID INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, NAME VARCHAR(20));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.21 sec)

mysql> Describe employee;
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| ID    | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| NAME  | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
2 rows in set (0.07 sec)

mysql> Insert into employee(name) values('Gaurav'),('Raman');
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.07 sec)
Records: 2 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> Select * from employee;
+----+--------+
| ID | NAME   |
+----+--------+
| 1  | Gaurav |
| 2  | Raman  |
+----+--------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

The following query will create table employee1 with a similar structure to table employee. You can check this by running a DESCRIBE query.

mysql> create table employee1 like employee;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.19 sec)

mysql> describe employee1;
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| ID    | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| NAME  | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
2 rows in set (0.14 sec)

Now the following query will insert the same value in employee1 as in employee, which can be checked as follows

mysql> INSERT INTO employee1 select * from employee;
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.09 sec)
Records: 2 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> select * from employee1;
+----+--------+
| ID | NAME   |
+----+--------+
| 1  | Gaurav |
| 2  | Raman  |
+----+--------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

In this way, we can also clone the table and its data, trigger controller and index.

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