Mysql – Using a thesqldump export to create data with a different database name

You can let mysqldump create the dump in such a way that it does not create or select the database.

EXAMPLE : You are dumping the database db1 and loading it into database db2

This will put in the CREATE DATABASE and the USE commands in the dump

mysqldump -u... -p... --routines --triggers --databases db1 > /root/db1.sql

This will not put in the CREATE DATABASE and the USE commands in the dump (this is what you want)

mysqldump -u... -p... --routines --triggers db1 > /root/db1.sql

You can load it into another database (such as db2) in one of four(4) ways:

OPTION 1

$ mysqldump -u... -p... --routines --triggers db1 | mysql -u... -p... -A -Ddb2

OPTION 2

$ mysqldump -u... -p... --routines --triggers db1 > /root/db1.sql
$ mysql -u... -p... -A -Ddb2 < /root/db1.sql

OPTION 3

$ mysqldump -u... -p... --routines --triggers db1 > /root/db1.sql
$ mysql -u... -p... -A -Ddb2
mysql> source /root/db1.sql

OPTION 4

$ mysqldump -u... -p... --routines --triggers db1 > /root/db1.sql
$ mysql -u... -p... -A
mysql> use db2
mysql> source /root/db1.sql

Give it a Try !!!

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