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From a SELECT
Supported by ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Occasionally, creating a table from a SELECT statement is very useful, copying the source table's data types and data.
// Create a new table from a source SELECT statement
create.createTable("book_archive")
.as(select(BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE).from(BOOK))
.execute();
// Create a new table from a source SELECT statement and specify that data should be included, explicitly
create.createTable("book_archive")
.as(select(BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE).from(BOOK))
.withData()
.execute();
// Create a new table from a source SELECT statement and specify that data should be excluded, explicitly
create.createTable("book_archive")
.as(select(BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE).from(BOOK))
.withNoData()
.execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
createTable("book_archive")
.as(select(BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE).from(BOOK))
.withNoData()
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
ASE, Access, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE INTO book_archive FROM BOOK WHERE 1 = 0
Aurora MySQL, MemSQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLite, Vertica
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK WHERE 1 = 0
Aurora Postgres, Exasol, Postgres, YugabyteDB
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK WITH NO DATA
BigQuery
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS ( SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK WHERE FALSE )
CockroachDB, DuckDB, H2, MariaDB, MySQL, Snowflake
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK WHERE FALSE
Databricks
CREATE TABLE book_archive TBLPROPERTIES( 'delta.columnMapping.mode' = 'name', 'delta.feature.allowColumnDefaults' = 'supported' ) AS SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK WHERE FALSE
DB2
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS ( SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK ) WITH NO DATA
HSQLDB, Hana
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS ( SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK ) WITH NO DATA
Teradata
CREATE TABLE book_archive AS ( SELECT BOOK.ID, BOOK.TITLE FROM BOOK WHERE 1 = 0 ) WITH DATA
ClickHouse, Firebird, Informix, Spanner, Sybase, Trino
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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