How to insert the data of one table into the other

[seshu]

Hi everybody
This is seshu here i am struck with one point i want to get the data of one table ie table1 ofcourse not the whole table only two out of five columns and i want to insert those two columns in an empty new table which is having five columns in which two of them are similar to the columns i have selected from table1
please help me out
regards
seshu

[ronverdonk]

As always, the answer is in the MySQL manual, chapter INSERT Syntax

For your problem something like

INSERT INTO TargetTable (col1, col2, col3)
SELECT col1,col2, col3
FROM SourceTable
 

Ronald :cool: