RE: Backing up database

[Paul DuBois]

At 11:48 PM -0500 2000-01-07, toxalot@stripped wrote:
>  >>>>  mysqladmin -uusername -ppassword database < foo.db
>>>>>
>>>>>   This will recreate and populate the tables and data that were
> dumped to
>>>   >> said 'foo.db'   (example db name)
>>
>>
>>Correct, except that it's mysql, not mysqladmin that will do this.
>>
>>--
>>Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
>
>
>Then what is mysqlimport for?

Reading in raw data files.  mysqlimport isn't the opposite of mysqldump,
though you might think so from the program names.

mysqlimport is a command line interface to the LOAD DATA statement.

-- 
Paul DuBois, paul@stripped