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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mysqldump certain tables Post 302742673 by Corona688 on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 12:23:24 PM
Old 12-11-2012
27 megabytes of what? Text from mysqldump? Any sort of compression should shrink that fantastically.

Instead of constantly using root to drop entire databases -- might just be the teensiest bit dangerous Smilie -- just list tables and delete them as the same user.
Code:
mysql -u username database -b --skip-column-names <<EOF > /tmp/$$-tables
SHOW TABLES
EOF

while read table
do
        echo "DROP TABLE $table"
done < /tmp/$$-tables | mysql -u username database
rm -f /tmp/$$-tables

And yeah, you can dump as many tables simultaneously as you want.

Code:
mysqldump -u username database table1 table2 table3 ...

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DataSource(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     DataSource(3)

NAME
DBIx::DataSource - Database-independant create and drop functions SYNOPSIS
use DBIx::DataSource qw( create_database drop_database ); create_database( $data_source, $username, $password ) or warn $DBIx::DataSource::errstr; drop_database( $data_source, $username, $password ) or warn $DBIx::DataSource::errstr; DESCRIPTION
This module implements create_database and drop_database functions for databases. It aims to provide a common interface to database cre- ation and deletion regardless of the actual database being used. Currently supported databases are MySQL and PostgreSQL. Assistance adding support for other databases is welcomed and relatively simple - see DBIx::DataSource::Driver. FUNCTIONS
create_database DATA_SOURCE USERNAME PASSWORD Create the database specified by the given DBI data source. drop_database DATA_SOURCE Drop the database specified by the given DBI data source. AUTHOR
Ivan Kohler <ivan-dbix-datasource@420.am> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000 Ivan Kohler Copyright (c) 2000 Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. BUGS
If DBI data sources were objects, these functions would be methods. SEE ALSO
DBIx::DataSource::Driver, DBIx::DataSource::mysql, DBIx::DataSource::Pg, DBI perl v5.8.0 2000-09-25 DataSource(3)
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