Moving tables across databases

You can rename a table by executing the RENAME TABLE statement.

For the following illustrations to work, create sample tables and databases

mysql> CREATE DATABASE prod;mysql> CREATE TABLE prod.audit_log (id int NOT NULL, msg varchar(64));mysql> CREATE DATABASE archive;

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