On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:57 , Michael Stassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
> > >McKeever Chris wrote: > >> MYSQL 4.0.13 >> >> I must be doing something wrong - I am trying to do a mysql dump and it > > keeps yelling that tables dont exist whenever I put a where clause in.. >> it runs fine when I leave the where clause off - any help here? >> >> mysqldump -u root -p hotswap EmailDatabase_k EmailMessage_k >"--where=EmailDatabase_k.Account='kvanoni' and >> EmailDatabase_k.id=EmailMessage_k.id" > kvanoni.db >> >> if I make it just a single clause, it then says that table doesnt exist etc... >> >> as I said, I take out the where and it works...thanks >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> Chris McKeever > >I expect mysqldump processes your command line one table at a time and does >something like > > SELECT * FROM db.table; > >to get the row data. Adding --where adds a WHERE clause to that. The >problem is that you cannot refer to a table in the WHERE clause that wasn't >mentioned in the FROM clause, and there's only the one table in there. > >This is because mysqldump is designed to make table backups. It is not >designed to run arbitrary queries. In other words, I think mysqldump is not >designed to do what you are trying to do. Instead, you probably need to >look into > > SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE > >http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/SELECT.html> or, if you're trying to make >a new table with a subset of the rows from the old table, > > CREATE ... SELECT > >http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/CREATE_TABLE.html>. Michael - I owe you a big wet sloppy kiss - that worked perfectly - created the new table, dropped the old, swapped the new one in and ran the dump and then imported what I needed back to the production DB....... > >If you really want a file with SQL statements, I suppose you could use >CREATE...SELECT to make the subset table, then use mysqldump without a where >clause on that, and finally DROP the subset table. > >Michael > > > ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com Success Driven By Results Results Driven By Commitment Commitment Driven By Integrity We Are Prudential Preferred Properties -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
