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[Cool Guy <coolguy.net@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, but the only problem is the inability to dump it as pipe or CSV format
- in other words, we don't have any flexibility at all in the way of
formatting the out file.

Thanks for the continued super quick replies!

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Brian Evans <grknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  On 5/19/2010 1:12 PM, Cool Guy wrote:
>
> mysqldump is more like a backup tool and is used to dump the whole
> table/database rather than select records ...
>
>  The workaround we came up with is dump the data to a temp table and then
> use a python program to convert and dump the table in CSV format. Though it
> works, I feel it is redundant and not so efficient way of doing things.
>
>
> On second thought, you CAN use the mysql -e IF you do this (as an example):
>
> mysql -u root -p -Nsr -e "SELECT
> CONCAT('\"',FirstName,'\",\"',LastName,'\"') from db.users"
>
> Change to suit.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Brian Evans <grknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 5/19/2010 12:58 PM, Cool Guy wrote:
>> > Sorry for the confusion. We can dump the file to the server where the
>> > database is hosted but this problem revolves around 2 different
>> > servers - 1. Client, 2. Database.
>> >
>> > So we want to dump the output to the client and MySQL has no such
>> > implementation. I explored the -e option and specifying the server
>> > name but it outputs only .txt file and there is no way of specifying
>> > CSV or pipe-delimited file.
>> >
>> > Thank you...
>>
>>  This calls for mysqldump then.
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html
>>
>> Other 3rd party clients can do this too.
>>
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