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I am trying to import a mysqldump into a new database. When I run:

mysqldump -umydbuser -p --database testimport < database.dump

I get the following output:

Enter password:

-- MySQL dump 10.11

--

-- Host: localhost    Database: testimport

-- ------------------------------------------------------

-- Server version       5.0.75-0ubuntu10.3



/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;

/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;

/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;

/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;

/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;

/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;



--

-- Current Database: `testimport`

--



CREATE DATABASE /*!32312 IF NOT EXISTS*/ `testimport` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET     latin1 */;



USE `testimport`;

/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;



/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;

/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;

/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;



-- Dump completed on 2010-03-09 17:46:03

However, when I look at the testimport database, there are no tables and no data. Even if I export a working database by:

mysqldump -umydbuser -p --database workingdatabase > test.sql

and then import:

mysqldump -umydbuser -p --database testimport < test.sql

I get the same output, but nothing is imported into the testimport database. I don't see any errors in the output and it is using the proper database. If I tail the exported .sql file, I see the create statements for all tables and the inserts for all data. Why isn't this data importing? Is there any additional logging I can see?

You want to run the dump through the mysql client.

Example:

mysql -uroot -p testimport < database.dump

Because when you dump data (Backup) you used "mysqldump" :

mysqldump -u user -p Database_name > SQL_dump_file.sql

But when restore data into database you need to use only "mysql":

mysql -u user -p Database_name < SQL_dump_file.sql

I had the same problem, just export de DDL (only structure) and export full database, then import first the DDL file, next import the full file using the same sentence

mysqldump -uroot -p 'database' < 'filename.sql'