Question

I have 5 tables in my dev database and I have take a mysqldump of all the tables.
I would like to re-create a different database only with 4 tables from the above mysqldump, how do I do that.

Note: I would like to skip data population for the 5th table, but would like to retain the schema definition for the table though.

Answer 1

You should do it in two steps:

1. Use –no-data option: >mysqldump -no-data database_name
2. Use –no-create-info and –tables options: >mysqldump --no-create-info database_name --tables table1 table2 table3 table4

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