On Tuesday 10 December 2002 15:59, tmb wrote:
> My tutorial db has a number of tables in it... some
> with data... some with no records.
>
> 1 - How can I ask MySQL to tell me the number of
> records in my tables?
> ..a) all at once? Meaning one command to list...
> tbl_1 6 records
> tbl_2 3 records
> tbl_3 0 records
> etc
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl_1;
> ..b) one table at a time? Meaning one command per tbl
Yes.
> 2 - How can I dump the contens of _all_ tables to the
> screen or to a text file?
Read about mysqldump options at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html
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