Question

I have a sql file generated by “mysqldump –all-databases” . There are many databases in it. What I want to do is to update my local database but only a specific one, not all. I tried to use “mysql -database=db_name < file.sql” but it updated all databases. Is there a way to skip all databases except the one that I want.

Answer 1

You can try doing:

mysql -D example_database -o < dump.sql

This will only execute the SQL commands for the specified database and will skip the commands for all other databases. The -o (“one database”) option is critical to this working as expected (it tells mysql to ignore statements related to other databases).

dump.sql is the result of executing mysqldump --all-databases