Is there any way to simplify a verbose SQL INSERT INTO(..) query?
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I have a table with one id (autonumber) field and 50 other fields. The table is normalized, these are 50 material properties etc.
I want to copy a record from this table into the same table - only the autoincrement id will be different. The query I am using now is
INSERT INTO tableName (field1,field2,....field50)
SELECT field1,field2,....field50 from tableName
WHERE autoid=1234;
Note that I have to type in ALL the 50 field names, twice! Is there any way to shorten this query so I don't have to type all of them?
Thanks.
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