From: Daevid Vincent Date: May 24 2011 8:41pm Subject: RE: Renaming a database? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/225097 Message-Id: <05a701cc1a52$fb678e10$f236aa30$@daevid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > -----Original Message----- > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Jerry Schwartz = wrote: >=20 > > It looks like there=E2=80=99s no way to rename a database. Is that = true? I know. Retarded right? Version 5.1.x and still what would seem the most = basic of tasks is still impossible.=20 Maybe Oracle can fix what MontyAB and Sun couldn't... that feature alone = would be well worth the $5.6 Billion dollars spent. I just had a need to do this last week and was astonished to find it's = still not implemented after all these... well ever! I unfortunately had = to dump the database to a .sql file, edit said file, re-dump in, then = dump in the new database, then run a SQL diff tool to find out what = schemata and data was different. The whole process delayed me a few = hours that I didn't budget for. Talk about a hindrance.=20 ----- And before anyone gets all upset with my use of the word "Retarded"... Read this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/rename-database.html And then the definition: re=E2=80=A2tard=E2=80=A2ed =E2=80=93verb (used with object) 1. to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, = process, etc.); hinder or impede. =E2=80=93verb (used without object) 2. to be delayed.