Question

We have a Linux server that has been running our MySQL 5.1 server. For a variety of reasons we have created a new MySQL5.5 server. What is the easiest and most efficient way to move an entire schema from the Linux 5.1 MySQL to the Windows 5.5 MySQL database?

Yesterday I looked into exporting the resultset of the query as a csv and using the LOAD DATA INFILE command but that didn’t work correctly. The dates didn’t import correctly, there were nulls where there should have been data, I didn’t look too closely at exactly what was wrong, just could tell it wasn’t right.

This would be a one time operation.

Thanks,
leslie

Answer 1

You can use mysqldump to export your entire database schema, and data as SQL commands. This dump should be easily imported into MySQL 5.5.