Hi

I have 2 tables: Person and PersonCar - something like this:

CREATE TABLE `database1`.`Person` (
`id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`name` VARCHAR(100)) NOT NULL,
`added_date` DATETIME NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)



CREATE TABLE `database1`.`PersonCar` (
`id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`person_id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`plate_no` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)



This is how I delete for those from 2008 or older (delete car aswell if person has a car):

DELETE Person, PersonCar FROM Person LEFT OUTER JOIN PersonCar ON Person.id = PersonCar.person_id WHERE Person.added_date < '2009-01-01 00:00:00'


My question is: how do I make backup to 2 other identical tables Person_backup and PersonCar_backup in 1 query - in the same manner as the above delete query (copying car is person has a car)?

can't be done in one query

i can do this programmatically with csharp (more than one query) - but is it possible to make this backup without involving programming? the goal is to just open the mysql query browser and fire a sql syntax - if this requires more than one query thats fine..

bump - please anyone?

bumping is frowned upon

and anyhow, you answered your own question -- use two queries