Just dump the data in delimited-text format.
This should work:
# To export to file (data only)
mysqldump -u [user] -p[pass] --no-create-info mydb > mydb.sql
# To export to file (structure only)
mysqldump -u [user] -p[pass] --no-data mydb > mydb.sql
# To import to database
mysql -u [user] -p[pass] mydb < mydb.sql
NOTE: there's no space between -p & [pass]
Would suggest using the following snippet. Works fine even with huge tables (otherwise you'd open dump in editor and strip unneeded stuff, right? ;)
mysqldump --no-create-info --skip-triggers --extended-insert --lock-tables --quick DB TABLE > dump.sql
At least mysql 5.x required, but who runs old stuff nowadays.. :)
>> man -k mysqldump [enter in the terminal]
you will find the below explanation
--no-create-info, -t
Do not write CREATE TABLE statements that re-create each dumped table. Note This option does not not exclude statements creating log file groups or tablespaces from mysqldump output; however, you can use the --no-tablespaces option for this purpose.
--no-data, -d
Do not write any table row information (that is, do not dump table contents). This is useful if you want to dump only the CREATE TABLE statement for the table (for example, to create an empty copy of the table by loading the dump file).
# To export to file (data only)
mysqldump -t -u [user] -p[pass] -t mydb > mydb_data.sql
# To export to file (structure only)
mysqldump -d -u [user] -p[pass] -d mydb > mydb_structure.sql
Try to dump to a delimited file.
mysqldump -u [username] -p -t -T/path/to/directory [database] --fields-enclosed-by=\" --fields-terminated-by=,
Best to dump to a compressed file
mysqldump --no-create-info -u username -hhostname -p dbname | gzip > /backupsql.gz
and to restore using pv apt-get install pv to monitor progress
pv backupsql.gz | gunzip | mysql -uusername -hhostip -p dbname
When attempting to export data using the accepted answer I got an error:
ERROR 1235 (42000) at line 3367: This version of MySQL doesn't yet support 'multiple triggers with the same action time and event for one table'
As mentioned above:
mysqldump --no-create-info
Will export the data but it will also export the create trigger statements. If like me your outputting database structure (which also includes triggers) with one command and then using the above command to get the data you should also use '--skip-triggers'.
So if you want JUST the data:
mysqldump --no-create-info --skip-triggers
If you just want the INSERT queries, use the following:
mysqldump --skip-triggers --compact --no-create-info
Source: Stackoverflow.com