Use SQL to clone data in two tables that have a 1-1 relationship with each other

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Published on 2010-05-19T18:35:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 20:40 UTC
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Using MS SQL 2005,

Table 1

ID |  T1Value  | T2ID  |  GroupID
----------------------------------
1  |     a     |  10   |     1
2  |     b     |  11   |     1
3  |     c     |  12   |     1
4  |     a     |  22   |     2

Table 2

ID  |  T2Value
----------------
10  |     H
11  |     J
12  |     K
22  |     H

I want to clone the data for GroupID == 1 into a new GroupID so that I result with the following:

Table 1

ID |  T1Value  | T2ID  |  GroupID
----------------------------------
1  |     a     |  10   |     1
2  |     b     |  11   |     1
3  |     c     |  12   |     1
4  |     a     |  22   |     2
5  |     a     |  23   |     3
6  |     b     |  24   |     3
7  |     c     |  25   |     3

Table 2

ID  |  T2Value
----------------
10  |     H
11  |     J
12  |     K
22  |     H
23  |     H
24  |     J
25  |     K

I've found some SQL clone patterns that allow me to clone data in the same table well... but as I start to deal with cloning data in two tables at the same time and then linking up the new rows correctly... that's just not something I feel like I have a good grasp of.

I thought I could do some self-joins to deal with this, but I am worried in the cases where the non-key fields have the same data in multiple rows.

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