Question

I have a mysql table, it has about 97 row and 5 columns of data.

I’d like to copy all this into a text file, then delete all the data, but leave the table intact. Whats the best way to do this in an automated way?

Answer 1

to save csv file you can run this query :

SELECT *
FROM mytable
INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/mytable.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

to delete all data from the table add this line

TRUNCATE mytable;

put it in a sql file and run it in a cron job, look on my link(point number 2) in the comments