SQL Duplicate client1 to create client2 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: SQL Duplicate client1 to create client2
From: David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:15:59 +0100
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Can I copy all of client1's records to a new client client2 with SQL?
Ie, copy all the data but with a different clientId supplied by my program.

Something like :

Insert into clientfile
select *from clientfile where clientid = client1 ( but replacing client1 with client2)

How should I protect against duplicate records? Normally the client2 will never exist at this time but you never know!

Thanks.

Follow-Ups:

Re: SQL Duplicate client1 to create client2 , Charles Wilt
Re: SQL Duplicate client1 to create client2 , dieter.bender

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