On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:05:56 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > i have a huge database and i want to transfer the data to a > file. can i > tranfer the result of a query to a file???? for eg. > > if i say select * from tablename; > > it selects all the tables. but the mysql window is small to see all > the records when the database has many records.can i send these > records and save it in a file?????
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/SELECT.html Search for "INTO OUTFILE" SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/home/me/data.txt' FROM mytable; (Note, you may have to deal with OS permission issues and you need the FILE MySQL privilege) Josh -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
