Yep, good for you, welcome to the "real" world
You are changing the prompt but are still inside the dbms, you need to
get out, because mysqldump is an application (.exe file) not a sql
command, ie
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 9
Server version: 5.0.41-community-nt-log MySQL Community Edition (GPL)
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql>
mysql> quit
Bye
D:\lillian>mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql;
----------------------------------------------------------
but maybe after the quit, the window will close, if that happens, open a
new command prompt from "start -> programs -> accesories --> command
prompt" and then run mysqldump
Carlos
Red Hope wrote:
> Hey y'all,
> I use charming Windows XP on here. I've taken database
> classes but lucky for me we never used *real* MySQL.
> Below I typed up exactly what I put into the MySQL
> prompt and this is what it kicks back to me.
>
> Lillian
>
>
>
> mysql>
>
> mysql> \R shell>
> PROMPT set to 'shell>'
>
> shell>
>
> shell>mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql;
> ERROR 1064 <4200>: You have an error in your SQL
> syntax; checkthe manual that corresponds to your MySQL
> server version for the right syntax to use near
> 'mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql' at line
> 1
>
>
>
> --- Carlos Proal <carlos.proal@stripped> wrote:
>
>
>> Can you email us the complete command and the error
>> ?
>>
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>> Red Hope wrote:
>>
>>> Well, that went over my head. :) I understand
>>>
>> what
>>
>>> you're telling me, how to get there, but not how
>>>
>> to do
>>
>>> it. bleh.
>>>
>>> When I start up MySQL Command Line Client, I'm
>>>
>> always
>>
>>> prompted at "mysql>". So I told it to switch from
>>>
>> that
>>
>>> prompt to "shell>" prompt. It always starts up in
>>> "mysql>" prompt. Once I'm in shell, I tried the
>>>
>> dump
>>
>>> procedure and it kept saying it couldn't connect.
>>>
>> So I
>>
>>> checked what databases it had, it shows them. I
>>>
>> can't
>>
>>> even switch to a database because of no
>>>
>> connection.
>>
>>> I'm not exactly sure why there's no 'connection'
>>>
>> at
>>
>>> all.
>>>
>>> Thanks for trying so hard, Carlos!
>>> Lillian
>>>
>>>
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