originally i was using easyPHP (windows) then i switch to mac and used MAMP. i archive my db every once in a while and right before i reformatted. The export was made by going into the root of phpMyAdmin and using the export function. Now i am trying to import the data i get this error ‘#1044 – Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ to database ‘information_schema”. Doing other things i got errors like ‘#1146 – Table ‘test_db.COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY’ doesn’t exist’, ‘#1146 – Table ‘test_db.CHARACTER_SETS’ doesn’t exist ‘ and ‘#1146 – Table ‘test_db.COLUMNS’ doesn’t exist’ and ‘#1046 – No database selected’
How do i get MAMP to import and ignore any access errors and continue so my DB is filled to the previous state? I rather not write an app to do this but if i had to what libs would i use to parse the sql statements in the sql dump? It doesnt look hard to parse. It looks like a semicolon separates the statements. But what about escape and unescape issues? how do i handle that?
The first error indicates that something is very wrong with your setup. information_schema is an internal DB which keeps data about other parts of the system (meta-data). You should try reinstalling your MySQL server (or even MAMP as a whole).
Second of all: the dump files can be imported using the mysql command line client like this:
One thing to remember is that ‘test_db’ needs to be created before the dump is restored. An other possible problem might be that the dump/restore is being done by different versions of MySQL (ie. 5.0 vs 5.1). For this you could try the –force command in the mysql command line to skip over failed executions, however be aware that this might not correctly restore your data.