From: Dimitre Radoulov Date: May 26 2010 10:40am Subject: Re: source backup.sql - troubleshoot List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/221709 Message-Id: <4BFCFA87.3030804@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 26/05/2010 12.18, Sydney Puente wrote: [...] > CREATE DATABASE /*!32312 IF NOT EXISTS*/ `event` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 */; > > USE `event`; > .... > > Can I have the commands being issued echo to the screen somehow, so I can identify which command is causing the problem? > Or investigate the problem in some other way? [...] Not sure if this was already mentioned: mysql --show-warnings -v -u -p < dump_file You can use -vv or -vvv for more verbose output. Regards Dimitre