Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 325

ALTER TABLE, CREATE
read is not isolated from those statements, so use of them on a table to be dumped can cause the
that is performed by
SELECT
or fail.
The
--single-transaction
exclusive because
LOCK TABLES
This option is not supported for MySQL Cluster tables; the results cannot be guaranteed to be
consistent due to the fact that the
transaction isolation level. You should always use
To dump large tables, you should combine the
[304].
quick
•
--skip-comments
See the description for the
• [305]
--skip-opt
See the description for the
• [305],
--socket=path
For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of the named
pipe to use.
•
--ssl*
Options that begin with
indicate where to find SSL keys and certificates. See
• [305],
--tab=path
Produce tab-separated text-format data files. For each dumped table,
file that contains the
tbl_name.sql
server writes a
tbl_name.txt
write the files.
Note
This option should be used only when
machine as the
and the server must have permission to write files in the directory that you
specify.
By default, the
.txt
newline at the end of each line. The format can be specified explicitly using the
--lines-terminated-by
Column values are dumped using the
[300] option is ignored. In effect, there is no character set conversion. If a table contains
set
columns in several character sets, the output data file will as well and you may not be able to reload
the file correctly.
• [305]
--tables
Override the
--databases
the option as table names.
• [305]
--triggers
— A Database Backup Program
mysqldump
TABLE, DROP TABLE,
to retrieve the table contents to obtain incorrect contents
mysqldump
[304] option and the
causes any pending transactions to be committed implicitly.
NDBCLUSTER
[305]
[298]
--comments
[303] option.
--opt
-S path
[607] specify whether to connect to the server using SSL and
--ssl
-T path
CREATE TABLE
file that contains its data. The option value is the directory in which to
mysqld
data files are formatted using tab characters between column values and a
[301] options.
binary
[299] or option.
-B
305
RENAME TABLE, TRUNCATE
--lock-tables
storage engine supports only the
backup and restore instead.
NDB
--single-transaction
option.
Section 6.3.6.4, "SSL Command
statement that creates the table, and the
mysqldump
server. You must have the
character set and the
regards all name arguments following
mysqldump
TABLE. A consistent
[301] option are mutually
READ_COMMITTED
[304] option with
Options".
creates a
mysqldump
is run on the same
[577] privilege,
FILE
--fields-xxx
--default-character-
--
and