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By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:50:26 +0000

Max: at a command prompt. It’s a mysqldump command

By: Max

Max — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:18:23 +0000

You wrote:

” Usually I can achieve this by typing:”

Where are you typing this?

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:26:57 +0000

You can put a file in your home directory called .my.cnf and put following content in it:
[mysql]
user=username
pass=password

By: Neil Telford

Neil Telford — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:28:04 +0000

Another poster asked this, but assume I dump out 5000 different tables, how do you re-import all these files without having to give a password each time?

By: Andre Bell

Andre Bell — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:20 +0000

Sunny, thanks for posting that script. I didn’t mean for you to go to that trouble, I was curious if a way to do that had already existed

In my case, a 3rd party app required each record to be a separate text file to be able to import the records into wordpress’ posting area.

If I were going for all 200,000 records I would have looked for a script that would directly import .sql files into wordpress’ posting area. But none exists so this 3rd party app seemed to be the next best thing.

Thanks again for the script.

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:08 +0000

Andre, Sorry for the delay. Here is a post for you: http://crazytoon.com/mysql_export_csv.php

By: Andre Bell

Andre Bell — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:37:08 +0000

Thanks for the script. Works fine for dumping the tables to files.

Is there also a way to dump the records from the tables into separate files? I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to do this, with no luck. Seems should be a php script already in existence to export each record from a table to separate text files. But after hundreds and hundreds of searches I can’t find anything like that works.

No real care of the naming convention, whether named according to the id field, primary key, or by date and time or some other method isn’t real important. Just as long as the data goes to separate files. Any clues how to do that?

Thanks

By: Frank Daley

Frank Daley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:25:01 +0000

Thanks for the script. Has been very very helpful.

One addition I am trying to implement is to include the column names in the output TXT files.

Is there a way to do this?

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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:35:52 +0000

[...] After I wrote the post: How do I dump all tables in a database into separate files? I got emails from couple people asking how to import the individual table files back in to MySQL. [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:15:06 +0000

How do you resotre the dump files back into the database?
Can you do all of them at once?

By: Scott Noyes

Scott Noyes — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:38:06 +0000

The –skip-column-names option to the mysql cli would negate the need for your inverse egrep.

By: Ruturaj

Ruturaj — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:42:04 +0000

check out the mysqldump option -T or –tab option
makes a unique *.txt file of the tables’ data and *.sql for the table definition

By: CrazyToon

CrazyToon — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:11:19 +0000

I have in past. I didn’t like the fact I had to install perl modules to get it working. That may not be the case on all systems but since all our systems have bare minimum installed OS, it takes longer for me to get things working whereas I can just run this script and be done.

Thanks for posting the link though. I am sure other people would appreciate it.

By: Stoner

Stoner — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:57:33 +0000

Have you looked at Maatkit (http://maatkit.sourceforge.net) – with it’s parallel dump and restore?