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Created April 20, 2022 13:11
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This sql script can merge two tables with different columns without carrying out the headache of specifying the whole list of column names. This script can guess the match column names and remove duplicates on insertion process.
SET @target_table = '`klame_new`.`url`';
SET @source_table = '`klame_url`.`url`';
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(column_name)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS a
WHERE a.TABLE_NAME = 'url'
AND a.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'klame_url'
AND a.COLUMN_NAME IN (
SELECT b.COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS b
WHERE b.TABLE_NAME = 'url'
AND b.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'klame_new'
) INTO @columns;
SET @s = CONCAT('REPLACE INTO ', @target_table , ' (',@columns,') ' , ' SELECT ', @columns ,' FROM ', @target_table ,' UNION ALL SELECT ', @columns , ' FROM ', @source_table);
PREPARE stmt FROM @s;
EXECUTE stmt;
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