On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:16:51PM -0700, Hubbard, Dan wrote: > Passing mysql commands through mysqldump or BACKUP TABLE ? > > We would like to perform backups on selective data within selective tables > and then purge the matching data in those tables. Is it possible to pass > mysql commands through either util above ? Which is better ? > > Example: sql statement... > > select * from tablename1 WHERE ((date_time > '2003-00-00 00:00:00') and > (date_time < '2003-06-31 00:00:00'));
No. But you can create a new table, copy the data to it, back it up, drop it, and nuke the old records. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.13: up 20 days, processed 647,347,517 queries (361/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
