How do I restore a dump file from mysqldump?

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Zack Peterson picture Zack Peterson · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 854.5k times · Source

I was given a MySQL database file that I need to restore as a database on my Windows Server 2008 machine.

I tried using MySQL Administrator, but I got the following error:

The selected file was generated by mysqldump and cannot be restored by this application.

How do I get this working?

Answer

Dónal picture Dónal · Jun 9, 2009

If the database you want to restore doesn't already exist, you need to create it first.

On the command-line, if you're in the same directory that contains the dumped file, use these commands (with appropriate substitutions):

C:\> mysql -u root -p

mysql> create database mydb;
mysql> use mydb;
mysql> source db_backup.dump;

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