In the last episode (Oct 07), John Oliver said: > I did try to find out how to do this in the manual, but "row" and > "table" occur so many times... > > I want to dump a certain number of rows from one table, and then restore > them to another database. I'm guessing I'd try "mysqldump -u root > -pPASSWORD database_name table_name" and then add something to specify > rows 1000-1050. And then I'm guessing that mysql < result.sql would > restore? Or would it not know what table it came from, and I'd have to > specify that?
If the two tables are on the same mysql server, just use "insert into newtable select * from oldtable where rowid between 1000 and 1050". If they're on two different servers, this syntax will output only insert statements (and no table creation or optimization options): mysqldump --no-create-info --compact --where 'rowid between 100 and 1050' mydb oldtable Note that the inserts include the table name, so if you're loading into a different table, you'll need to rewrite the output with sed, or maybe create a "select * from oldtable" view on your first server that matches the table name on the second server, so your table names match. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org