I have an application that has a large database that includes, among many other tables, a table called content
and a table called users
.
I would like to set up a development environment for this application, however I would like to bring in only some parts of the content
and users
tables.
If there are 50,000 rows for each of these tables, I only want to bring over 10 rows so my development environment has at least some data.
What is the best way to create a dump of the database data and structure, while also limiting the size of the dump and the risk of putting sensitive information in a development environment?
Best Answer
It's an SQL injection: The
--where
option is basically appended to a query of the formSELECT * from table WHERE
, so in this case you getSELECT * from table WHERE 1 limit 10
. Without the 1, you would have an invalid query. Specifying 1 for a where clause (since 1 is always true) simply selects all records.Source: Limiting the number of records from mysqldump?