Note the space after the -p , alba2 will be the defaut database *after* he is 
prompted and corrctly give the password for r...@whateverhishostis . 

As he did not give the password, and is not connecting to an that one could get 
to from the net he really has not given out particularly useful info if we had 
ill intents.


Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Darryle Steplight <dstepli...@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:20:26 
To: René Fournier<m...@renefournier.com>
Cc: mysql<mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Subject: Re: mysqlimport remote host problem


Hi Rene,
     Just a head's up. You might want to keep your username/password
credentials private.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM, René Fournier <m...@renefournier.com> wrote:
> OK, I've managed to do the same thing with just the mysql command line
> program:
>
>        mysql -h 192.168.0.224 -u root -p alba2 <
> /Backup/Latest/alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m.Tuesday.sql
>
> Works great. However, the sql file is normally gzipped, so.... Can I ungzip
> the file on the fly (and without removing the .gzip version) and pipe the
> contents as I did above? (Yes, I'm UNIX-impaired.)  Something like:
>
>        mysql -h 192.168.0.224 -u root -p alba2 < gzip -dc
> /Backup/Latest/alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m.Tuesday.sql.gz
>
> But so that it works...
>
> ...Rene
>
> On 10-Mar-09, at 7:38 PM, René Fournier wrote:
>
>> I'm writing script that, each night, copies a small database to my laptop
>> on the local network. I'm having trouble getting it to work. Here's my
>> syntax so far (run on the server):
>>
>> mysqlimport --host=192.168.0.224 --user=root --password alba2
>> alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m.Tuesday.sql
>>
>> Which produces:
>>
>> ---
>> mysqlimport: Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
>> that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use
>> near '-03-10_00h45m IGNORE 0 LINES' at line 1, when using table:
>> alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m
>> ---
>>
>> The sql file is produced by automysqlbackup...  Not sure what I'm missing,
>> probably something obvious. Anyway, here's the first part of the sql file I
>> want to import:
>>
>> -- MySQL Administrator dump 1.4
>> --
>> -- ------------------------------------------------------
>> -- Server version       5.0.67-log
>>
>>
>> /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
>> /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
>> /*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
>> /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
>>
>> /*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
>> /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS,
>> FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
>> /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO'
>> */;
>>
>>
>> --
>> -- Create schema alba2
>> --
>>
>> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS alba2;
>> USE alba2;
>>
>> --
>> -- Definition of table `alba2`.`accounts`
>> --
>>
>> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `alba2`.`accounts`;
>> CREATE TABLE  `alba2`.`accounts` (
>>  `id` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
>>  `fp` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
>>  `created` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
>>  `status` enum('Active','Inactive') NOT NULL default 'Active',
>>  `account_name` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
>>  `account_full_name` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
>>  `address` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
>>  `city` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
>>  `province` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
>>  `postcode` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
>>  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
>> ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=10 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
>>
>> --
>> -- Dumping data for table `alba2`.`accounts`
>> --
>>
>>
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