Re: questions about merging
Walter Heck writes: > Might be a bit late, Better late than never. > but on the naming issue: why not rename the tables on the old database > before doing the dump? that would save you from potentially messing > with your data due to parsing problems. A good idea, but it wouldn't have worked for me. The original site was not mine and I didn't have permission to do so. Thanks, rdc> -- Robert D. Crawford rd...@comcast.net -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: questions about merging
Olaf Stein writes: > I think he only has one DB, I guess that is a provider restriction... True. I would create a separate db for each application if I could. rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rd...@comcast.net -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: questions about merging
Hello, Olaf, "Stein, Olaf" writes: > the import of the dump will not remove your other tables unless there > is a naming conflict, then the table will be overwritten. As far as > the prefix goes you can edit the dump file, find the create table > statement for each table and add the prefix. If you have lots of > tables or a huge dump file it might make sense to use a more automated > approach, perl or python scripts will work on most platforms. The > prefix will also make sure you have no naming conflicts I guess I figured that would be the case but I really needed to make sure. The file is huge but judicious use of head, emacs, and cat should do the job just fine without having to write something. One other question concerns these lines: CREATE DATABASE `db169254900`; USE db169254900; I can just remove the CREATE DATABASE line and change the USE line to reflect the name of the current db, right? Thanks for your help. My partner will be rather happy to have her wiki up. rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rd...@comcast.net Laugh at your problems; everybody else does. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
questions about merging
Hello all, I hope I get the terminology right. I am not sure merge is what I want, so let me describe what I need. I have a sql dump from a db that is a mediawiki. I cannot upgrade the software on the old server and need to move it to a new server. I have only one db available to me on the new server that currently holds a wordpress blog. As I understand it this should be no problem as long as the table names do not conflict, right? I know the command for restoring the db from the mysql command prompt. First, I want to make sure that doing mysql -p < dump.sql is not going to hose the current db. Next I want to find out if there is an easy way to change the table names. I need the tables prefixed with the wiki name. Can anyone help me to figure out the easiest and safest way to accomplish this? If any more information is needed I can get it for you, I'm sure. Thanks in advance for any help or pointers to relevant documentation, rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rd...@comcast.net -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
