I have a sql file that I want to upload from the command line. To do this I first need to go into MySQL and create the database
mysql> create database myDB;
and then call the following from the command line:
mysql -u username -p myDB < myDB.sql
Is there a way to do this all in one line from the command line?
I tried adding the following lines (and various combinations) to the beginning of the myDB.sql file:
create database `myDB`;
use `myDB`;
and then running
mysql -u username -p < myDB.sql
but that did not work.
ERROR 1046 (3D000) at line 7: No database selected
.sql files are generally LITERALLY just a sequence of SQL DDL/DML queries. If it was created by mysqldump, then it should contain EVERYTHING needed to recreate the database from the ground up, including the necessary create db and create table queries.
if they're not there, you can manually add them to the top of the file yourself via simple file concatenation/modification, e.g.
echo 'create database foo;' > new.sql
cat otherstuff.sql >> new.sql
mysql < new.sql
If you generated the mysqldump file with the --databases or --all-databases options, then it puts the correct CREATE DATABASE statements into the dump file.
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So I wanted to format my system and I had a lot of works that I have done on my localhost that involves databases. I followed the normal way of backing up the database by exporting it into an SQL file but I think I made a mess by making a mistake of backing up everything in one SQL file (I mean the whole localhost was exported to just one SQL file).
The problem now is: when I try to import the backed up file I mean the (localhost.sql), I get an error like
tables already exist.
information_schema
performance_schema
an every other tables that comes with Xampp, which has been preventing me from importing the database.
These tables are the phpmyadmin tables that came with Xampp. I have been trying to get past this for days.
My question now is that can I extract different databases from the same compiled SQL database file?
To import a database you can do following things:
mysql -u username -p database_name < /path/to/database.sql
From within mysql:
mysql> use database_name;
mysql> source database.sql;
The error is quite self-explanatory. The tables information_schema and performance_schema are already in the MySQL server instance that you are trying to import to.
Both of these databases are default in MySQL, so it is strange that you would be trying to import these into another MySQL installation. The basic syntax to create a .sql file to import from the command line is:
$ mysqldump -u [username] -p [database name] > sqlfile.sql
Or for multiple databases:
$ mysqldump --databases db1 db2 db3 > sqlfile.sql
Then to import them into another MySQL installation:
$ mysql -u [username] -p [database name] < sqlfile.sql
If the database already exists in MySQL then you need to do:
$ mysqlimport -u [username] -p [database name] sqlfile.sql
This seems to be the command you want to use, however I have never replaced the information_schema or performance_schema databases, so I'm unsure if this will cripple your MySQL installation or not.
So an example would be:
$ mysqldump -uDonglecow -p myDatabase > myDatabase.sql
$ mysql -uDonglecow -p myDatabase < myDatabase.sql
Remember not to provide a password on the command line, as this will be visible in plain text in the command history.
The point the previous responders seem to be missing is that the dump file localhost.sql when fed into mysql using
% mysql -u [username] -p [databasename] < localhost.sql
generates multiple databases so specifying a single databasename on the command line is illogical.
I had this problem and my solution was to not specify [databasename] on the command line and instead run:
% mysql -u [username] -p < localhost.sql
which works.
Actually it doesn't work right away because of previous attempts
which did create some structure inside mysql, and those bits in localhost.sql
make mysql complain because they already exist from the first time around, so
now they can't be created on the second time around.
The solution to THAT is to manually edit localhost.sql with modifications like
INSERT IGNORE for INSERT (so it doesn't re-insert the same stuff, nor complain),
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE DATABASE,
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE TABLE,
and to delete ALTER TABLE commands entirely if they generate errors because by then
they've already been executed ((and INSERTs and CREATEs perhaps too for the same reasons). You can check the tables with DESCRIBE TABLE and SELECT commands to make sure that the ALTERations, etc. have taken hold, for confidence.
My own localhost.sql file was 300M which my favorite editor emacs complained about, so I had to pull out bits using
% head -n 20000 localhost.sql | tail -n 10000 > 2nd_10k_lines.sql
and go through it 10k lines at a time. It wasn't too hard because drupal was responsible for an enormous amount, the vast majority, of junk in there, and I didn't want to keep any of that, so I could carve away enormous chunks easily.
unzip -p /pathoffile/database_file.zip | mysql -uusername -p databsename;
Best way to import database in localhost has simple 5 steps:
zip sql file first to compress databse size.
go to termianl.
create empty database.
Run Command unzip databse With Import database: unzip -p /pathoffile/database_file.zip | mysql -uusername -p databsename;
Enter Password
Normally I have database already created. So this command line works find:
mysql -h -u -p [databaseName] < dump.sql
I have an import.sql file that has a top query that creates the database, if it doesn't already exist.
Is there a way to import the sql file, but without needing to select a pre-existing database?
Invoke the commandline without specifying the database
mysql -h -u -p < dump.sql
inside dump.sql, after you create the database add
USE databasename;
While creating the dump file using mysqldump you can use the switch --add-drop-database. This will include a statement to drop the database first. So in the subsequent statement, a fresh database will be created since no database with the given name exists
See mysql documentation for more
I don't know much about MySQL at all. But I am trying to reverse engineer a MySQL database using Visio. I know what steps I should take to do this, but I can't get my database to show in the 'Databases' section (as below):
How do I create the MySQL database using the .SQL file and get it to show up in this list? I have tried this code:
mysql -u username -p password database_name < filename.sql
using my own credentials of course. But that doesn't seem to work. In what folder should the .SQL file be placed if this statement is to work?
1) Create a file "filename.sql"
2) Create a database in your DB in which you want to import this file.
3) From command-prompt/terminal, move to the directory where you have created a "filename.sql".
4) Run the command: mysql -u username -p password database_name < filename.sql. (You can also give the proper path of your file and run this command from anywhere). It might be the case that you don't have a password set for MySQL. If so, mysql -u username database_name < filename.sql will also work.
In your case if you have created a database with name ojs and also created a file with name ojs.sql in C: drive then run the following command:
Edit: Put the path inside quotes.
mysql -u username -p password ojs < "C:\ojs.sql"
There is another way of importing tables in mysql. You can do it this way as well:
1) Connect your database
2) Type command "use ojs;"
3) Type command "source C:/ojs.sql"
Most MySQL SQL files that create databases create the database 'on-the-fly', so you typically needn't do anything except:
log-in
mysql -u [username] -p[password]
(Note: make sure you do NOT include a space (' ') character between the -p and the [password].
MySQL will think that [password] is the name of the database you want to connect to.
The 'general' log-in (above) does not assume you want to connect to any particular schema.)
source the file (do not use quotes around filename)
mysql> source [database_creation_file].sql
you can simply do it using mysql workbench
1> create a new query tab
2> CREATE DATABASE database_name;
3> USE database_name;
4> open the filename.sql file and execute it ctrl + shift + enter
5> all the tables in the filename.sql are created
To create a MySQL database using a SQL file, you can follow these steps:
Log in to your MySQL server using the mysql command-line tool and the appropriate credentials.
Use the CREATE DATABASE command to create a new database with the desired name:
CREATE DATABASE database_name;
Use the USE command to switch to the newly created database:
USE database_name;
Use the SOURCE command to import the SQL file into the database:
SOURCE path/to/sql/file;
The database will now be created and populated with the data from the SQL file. You can verify this by running some SQL queries against the database.
It's important to note that this process assumes that the SQL file contains valid SQL statements compatible with the version of MySQL you are using. If the SQL file contains any errors or unsupported statements, they will be displayed in the mysql command-line tool, and the import process will be interrupted.
I am trying to do some maintenance on MySQL database data and I created a dump file with the backed up current database.
I want to restore all that data into another database called something like original_db_name_test
Is there a command for that?
This depends on how you invoked mysqldump
If you used mysqldump dbname, then your dump contains neither CREATE DATABASE nor USE DATABASE.
Just create the database with the new name and feed the dump to mysql -D new_dbname.
If you used mysqldump --database dbname, then the dump contains CREATE DATABASE and USE DATABASE statements.
You need to comment them out or replace with new_dbname.
mysql -u usernamehere -p original_db_name_test < yourdumpfilehere.sql
If you used mysqldump to create the dump file, simply:
Create a new database (use the mysqladmin command line tool - "mysqladmin create [new database name]").
Edit the dump file to add a "USE [new database name];" at the top. (There might be an existing use statement that's commented out, so you can change this and un-comment it.)
Import the dump into the new table via "mysql -u <user name> -p < [dump file name]".
Incidentally, when creating a dump via mysqldump, I'd be tempted to use the "--add-drop-table" option, as this will cull any existing table with the same name prior to issuing the table creation statement.
you can use the 'MySQL Workbench' Application and do this with a nice gui
I have a database that I created using the CREATE DATABASE statement in the terminal and I have a .sql file full of statements creating tables and rows.
I just wanted to know what was the command line to execute that .sql on the database I created?
In the MySQL interactive client you can type:
source yourfile.sql
Alternatively you can pipe the data into mysql from the command line:
mysql < yourfile.sql
If the file doesn't specify a database then you will also need to add that:
mysql db_name < yourfile.sql
See the documentation for more details:
Executing SQL Statements from a Text File
If you have password for your dB then
mysql -u <username> -p <DBName> < yourfile.sql