"select * into table" Will it work for inserting data into existing table
- by Shantanu Gupta
I am trying to insert data from one of my existing table into another existing table.
Is it possible to insert data into any existing table using select * into query.
I think it can be done using union but in that case i need to record all data of my existing table into temporary table, then drop that table and finally than apply union to insert all records into same table
eg.
select * into #tblExisting from tblExisting
drop table tblExisting
select * into tblExisting from #tblExisting union tblActualData
Here tblExisting is the table where I actually want to store all data
tblActualData is the table from where data is to be appended to tblExisting.
Is it right method.
Do we have some other alternative ?
