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Asked: 2026-06-04T08:59:38+00:00

I have a Win7 machine running PHP/MySQL/Apache and I have MySQL Administrator, MySQL Manager

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I have a Win7 machine running PHP/MySQL/Apache and I have MySQL Administrator, MySQL Manager for MySQL installed along with a few other tools like Toad MySQL 6.0…

I was looking for a solution for some utf-8 issues I’ve been having and the majority of solutions (ie this one) say to run a set of commands such as mysqldump etc… But HOW do I run a command on a windows machine? I’ve tried executing it as an SQL script, running from the Windows Run command like 

"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\" mysqldump MY_DB -uroot --opt --quote-names --skip-set-charset --default-character-set=latin1 >c:\MY_DB_latin1.sql

but without luck. Any suggestions would be very helpful.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is the space between "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\" and mysqldump. This should read "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqldump".

    Adding the .exe is optional: "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqldump.exe".

    If you want to execute MySQL commands instead of dumping the database you should use mysql.exe: "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysql.exe". Use the -? option to get an overview of the command line options.

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