Question

I want to dump mysql database only the tables which have data, Can u please give me your suggestion. this is more helpful

Thanks & Regards,
Vara Kumar.PJD

Answer 1

You can use the –ignore-table option, but you have to find out which tables are empty first as this is not directly possible with mysqldump. So you could do

mysqldump -u username -p database --ignore-table=database.table1 --ignore-table=database.table2 > database.sql