MySQL Programming Interview Question:

How To Dump a Table to a File with "mysqldump"?

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If you want to dump all rows in a table from the server to a file, you can use "mysqldump" with the "-f fileName" option as show in the following tutorial exercise:

>cd mysqlin
>mysqldump -u root -r emplinks.txt test links
>type emplinks.txt

>type emplinks.txt | more
<pre>-- MySQL dump 10.10
--
-- Host: localhost Database: test
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 5.0.24-community
...</pre>
The dump file contains SQL statements that you can use to restore the table and its data content.
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