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Fastest, Easiest, Most Efficient way to duplicate a Datatable column?
Hi Experts,
Quick question - Hopefully I don't know it, but what is the fastest way to duplicate a column in a datatable with all the data?
In other words, suppose I have a datatable with a column called "col1" populated with values. What I would like is to add a new column to my datatable called, say, col1_copy and have it have all the exact same values as col1.
I'm hoping there is a faster way than just:
PLEASE let me know the fastest, most efficient way to do this???
Thanks!!!
Quick question - Hopefully I don't know it, but what is the fastest way to duplicate a column in a datatable with all the data?
In other words, suppose I have a datatable with a column called "col1" populated with values. What I would like is to add a new column to my datatable called, say, col1_copy and have it have all the exact same values as col1.
I'm hoping there is a faster way than just:
Add column to Datatble with same structure as col1
Loop through datarows and copy from one column to the other
since my datatables are ENORMOUS and I'm duplicating quite a few columns and, so, updating the datatable value-by-value seems to be very slow...PLEASE let me know the fastest, most efficient way to do this???
Thanks!!!
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Nasir Razzaq
If the above comment does not apply then I think looping and copying is the only option( I am not sure if LINQ can help here)