--fields-terminated-by=name
Fields in the output file are terminated by the given
--lines-terminated-by=name
Lines in the output file are terminated by the given
The name should contain one of the following:
`--fields-terminated-by`
\t or "\""
`--fields-enclosed-by=name`
Fields in the output file are enclosed by the given
and
--lines-terminated-by
\r
\n
\r\n
Naturally you should mysqldump each table individually.
I suggest you gather all table names in a text file. Then, iterate through all tables running mysqldump. Here is a script that will dump and gzip 10 tables at a time:
MYSQL_USER=root
MYSQL_PASS=rootpassword
MYSQL_CONN="-u${MYSQL_USER} -p${MYSQL_PASS}"
SQLSTMT="SELECT CONCAT(table_schema,'.',table_name)"
SQLSTMT="${SQLSTMT} FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema NOT IN "
SQLSTMT="${SQLSTMT} ('information_schema','performance_schema','mysql')"
mysql ${MYSQL_CONN} -ANe"${SQLSTMT}" > /tmp/DBTB.txt
COMMIT_COUNT=0
COMMIT_LIMIT=10
TARGET_FOLDER=/path/to/csv/files
for DBTB in `cat /tmp/DBTB.txt`
do
DB=`echo "${DBTB}" | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $1}'`
TB=`echo "${DBTB}" | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $2}'`
DUMPFILE=${DB}-${TB}.csv.gz
mysqldump ${MYSQL_CONN} -T ${TARGET_FOLDER} --fields-terminated-by="," --fields-enclosed-by="\"" --lines-terminated-by="\r\n" ${DB} ${TB} | gzip > ${DUMPFILE}
(( COMMIT_COUNT++ ))
if [ ${COMMIT_COUNT} -eq ${COMMIT_LIMIT} ]
then
COMMIT_COUNT=0
wait
fi
done
if [ ${COMMIT_COUNT} -gt 0 ]
then
wait
fi
The trouble with all these INTO OUTFILE or --tab=tmpfile (and -T/path/to/directory) answers is that it requires running mysqldumpon the same server as the MySQL server, and having those access rights.
My solution was simply to use mysql (notmysqldump) with the -B parameter, inline the SELECT statement with -e, then massage the ASCII output with sed, and wind up with CSV including a header field row:
Example:
mysql -B -u username -p password database -h dbhost -e "SELECT * FROM accounts;" \
| sed "s/\"/\"\"/g;s/'/\'/;s/\t/\",\"/g;s/^/\"/;s/$/\"/;s/\n//g"
If you are using MySQL or MariaDB, the easiest and performant way dump CSV for single table is -
SELECT customer_id, firstname, surname INTO OUTFILE '/exportdata/customers.txt'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM customers;
Now you can use other techniques to repeat this command for multiple tables. See more details here:
I'm dumping to /var/lib/mysql-files/ to avoid this error:
mysqldump: Got error: 1290: The MySQL server is running with the --secure-file-priv option so it cannot execute this statement when executing 'SELECT INTO OUTFILE'