>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Mack <Mack@stripped> writes:
Christian> Peter Hicks wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've tried in vain to get a simple, straightforward, command or script
>> to dump the contents (data, and table structures) from a MySQL
>> database on one server, to a text file, and then to re-create the
>> database on another sever.
>>
>> Using mysql_dump and mysqlimport doesn't seem to work reliably -
>> mysql_dump doesn't appear to escape all special characters, so I
>> get a whole host of errors when importing.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the direction of a script to do this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Peter.
Christian> Hi Peter
Christian> mysqldump does escape all special characters, but a tab is not considered a
> special character. As mysqlimport per default uses tab delimited columns you can have
> problems on reading strings (not only BLOB's) with tabs inside.
Hi!
If you use mysqldump with --tab, tab characters should be escaped by
the the MySQL server. If you don't use --tab, then tabs shouldn't
need to be escaped.
Can either of you send me a complete test that doesn't work?
Regards,
Monty
