Exporting a MySQL table into a CSV file

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user3304713 picture user3304713 · Apr 1, 2014 · Viewed 93.7k times · Source

I have a MySQL table which has to be taken out as a CSV file. The query I used is

SELECT "ID","NAME","SALARY","SAL1","SAL2","SAL3","SAL4","SAL5","SAL6","SAL7","SAL8","SAL9","SAL10","SAL11","SAL12","SAL13","SAL14","SAL15","SAL16","SAL17","SAL18","SAL19","SAL20","SAL21","SAL22","SAL23","SAL24","SAL25","SAL26"
UNION ALL
SELECT *
FROM addstock25
INTO OUTFILE "E:\\JOSE DATA\\addstock7.csv"
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

This query works, but what if I have 200 column names? Is there a way to do it without manually typing it?

Answer

Rems picture Rems · Mar 6, 2015

This command almost gives you what you want, and it even works with a remote server. The only caveat is that it generates a TSV file (fields are separated by a tab).

mysql mydb -e "select * from mytable" -B > mytable.tsv

But you could convert it to CSV using sed, as suggested in this answer:

mysql mydb -e "select * from mytable" -B | sed "s/'/\'/;s/\t/\",\"/g;s/^/\"/;s/$/\"/;s/\n//g" > mytable.csv

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