Question

I have a shell script on server a. The script spits out a csv file to a local directory. The problem is the database server is on server b. How do I use select * into outfile in a setup like this?

I get

Can't create/write to file '/home/username/test.csv/' (Errcode: 2)

Solved load data infile by using ‘LOCAL’ keyword. Is there something like that for outfile?

Answer 1

select into outfile can only create the file on the server, not the client.

Here’s what the manual recommends for your situation:

If you want to create the resulting
file on some client host other than
the server host, you cannot use SELECT
… INTO OUTFILE. In that case, you
should instead use a command such as
mysql -e “SELECT …” > file_name to
generate the file on the client host.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/select.html