It is also useful if you are running SQL statements from an SQL application in another SQL-based database. The second form uses a LIKE clause to create a table that has the same column names and ...

An example could be when creating a table in SQL for Person. CREATE TABLE Person ( person_id INT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(50), age INT CHECK (age > 0) ); For the column age within the table, an ...

In this example, Transact-SQL will create a new table with all columns from the rows in "old_table" in which the last name starts with "Ja." Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.