Starting from MySQL 5, when you execute show databases command, information_schema will be listed in the database list. information_schema is a virtual MySQL database that stores metadata information of all the MySQL databases. Typically you will execute either DESCRIBE or SHOW commands to get the metadata information. However using the information_schema views, you can execute [...]
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mysqldump is an effective tool to backup MySQL database. It creates a *.sql file with DROP table, CREATE table and INSERT into sql-statements of the source database. To restore the database, execute the *.sql file on destination database. For MyISAM, use mysqlhotcopy method that we explained earlier, as it is faster for MyISAM tables. Using [...]
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