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I need to export a large database without foreign keys. What is the command to do this?
This is what I tried but I know this is incorrect.
mysqldump -u root -p DBNAME SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0; | gzip > database.sql.gzip
From this SO thread:
Can you automatically create a mysqldump file that doesn't enforce foreign key constraints?
The mysqldump command included with MySQL 5.0.51 (and according to the change log versions since 4.1.1) does switch off foreign key checks. By default, mysqldump includes the following line at the top of the dump file:
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;The /*!40014 … */ syntax is a conditional comment that will be executed on MySQL 4.0.14 and later. The old foreign key checks setting is restored at the end of the dump file:
/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;