Question

I have a large database, “devDB” that I want to duplicate on the same server to become my live database, “liveDB”. Can I make a duplicate without using mysqldump? Last time I used mysqldump it took a really long time. Seems like there could be a quicker way if its just a matter of copying the files. Can you create a new database and copy all the tables?

Answer 1

If you don’t want to use mysqldump, create you databases/schema,

and copy the tables from one DB to the other:

 CREATE TABLE `liveDB.sample_table` SELECT * FROM `devDB.sample_table`;