MySQL dump by query

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Jakub Arnold picture Jakub Arnold · Jun 1, 2009 · Viewed 337.3k times · Source

Is it possible to do mysqldump by single SQL query?

I mean to dump the whole database, like phpmyadmin does when you do export to SQL

Answer

Zak picture Zak · Jun 1, 2009

not mysqldump, but mysql cli...

mysql -e "select * from myTable" -u myuser -pxxxxxxxxx mydatabase

you can redirect it out to a file if you want :

mysql -e "select * from myTable" -u myuser -pxxxxxxxx mydatabase > mydumpfile.txt

Update: Original post asked if he could dump from the database by query. What he asked and what he meant were different. He really wanted to just mysqldump all tables.

mysqldump --tables myTable --where="id < 1000"

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