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Mastering MariaDB
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Mastering MariaDB

by Federico Razzoli
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Delimited text backups

A backup of a single table can be a delimited text file: a human-readable text file in which the column values are separated by a specific character. The most common example is the CSV format, where the values are separated by a comma. MariaDB supports the following ways to create text-delimited files:

  • The mysqldump command with the --tab option
  • The SELECT … INTO OUTFILE command
  • The CSV storage engine
  • The CONNECT storage engine

MariaDB also supports the following methods to restore a text limited backup:

  • The mysqlimport command
  • The LOAD DATA INFILE command
  • The CSV storage engine
  • The CONNECT storage engine

The --tab option of the mysqldump command

The mysqldump command, when invoked with the --tab option, produces two files for each ...

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