Red Hope wrote:
I'm curious about one thing. When I go into MySQL
folder on the hard drive. I go into the 'bin' folder,
should there be an .exe program called mysqldump? or
not?

Lillian


--- Carlos Proal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yep, good for you, welcome to the "real" world
You are changing the prompt but are still inside the
dbms, you need to get out, because mysqldump is an application (.exe file) not a sql command, ie

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ;
or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 9
Server version: 5.0.41-community-nt-log MySQL
Community Edition (GPL)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear
the buffer.

mysql>
mysql> quit
Bye

D:\lillian>mysqldump -u root -ppassword test >
test.sql;

----------------------------------------------------------
but maybe after the quit, the window will close, if
that happens, open a new command prompt from "start -> programs -> accesories --> command prompt" and then run mysqldump

Carlos


Red Hope wrote:
Hey y'all,
I use charming Windows XP on here. I've taken
database
classes but lucky for me we never used *real*
MySQL.
Below I typed up exactly what I put into the MySQL
prompt and this is what it kicks back to me.

Lillian



mysql>
mysql> \R shell>
PROMPT set to 'shell>'

shell>
shell>mysqldump -u root -ppassword test >
test.sql;
ERROR 1064 <4200>: You have an error in your SQL
syntax; checkthe manual that corresponds to your
MySQL
server version for the right syntax to use near
'mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql' at
line
1



--- Carlos Proal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Can you email us the complete command and the
error
?

Carlos


Red Hope wrote:
Well, that went over my head.  :)  I understand
what
you're telling me, how to get there, but not how
to do
it. bleh.
When I start up MySQL Command Line Client, I'm
always
prompted at "mysql>". So I told it to switch
from
that
prompt to "shell>" prompt. It always starts up
in
"mysql>" prompt. Once I'm in shell, I tried the
dump
procedure and it kept saying it couldn't
connect.
So I
checked what databases it had, it shows them. I
can't
even switch to a database because of no
connection.
I'm not exactly sure why there's no 'connection'
at
all.

Thanks for trying so hard, Carlos!
Lillian
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As far as i know there SHOULD be a mysqldump.exe in your mysql bin folder.

On windows it should be:
Start, Run, Type "cmd", Enter
At the Command Prompt cd to your MySQL directory. For Example: "cd C:\mysql\bin", Enter
then "mysqldump -u root -ppassword test > test.sql"", Enter

That will place that .sql file in that directory for now which you can move as you please through Explorer. You do NOT want to run this from the MySQL client. mysqldump is a completely separate program that is run from the Operating Systems command line.

I hope this helps. if not, just keep trying. you are very close.

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