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Create Table From Another Table: What SELECT INTO Copies

To create table from another table in SQL Server, use SELECT INTO with WHERE 1 = 2 or TOP (0) for the structure alone. This post builds a demo table and compares it with its copy column by column. It shows the identity trap, the computed column that becomes plain, and the statements that add keys, defaults and indexes back.

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