This post saved me hours of frustration and headache when I was trying to perform the mysqldump and mysql operations on my local machine.
If you have XAMPP installed on your local machine and you want to perform mysqldump (make a backup) or mysql (restore a backup) operations, you need to know the path to those MySQL applications. They’re all located here on a typical XAMPP installation:
C:xamppmysqlbin
To get the command line window:
- START->Run…
- type in
cmd& hit return
That means if you need to backup from the command line you use this:
C:xamppmysqlbinmysqldump -uxmysqlusername -p -hmysql.example.com xdatabase >./myfile.txt
And if you want to restore you use this:
C:xamppmysqlbinmysql -uxmysqlusername -p -hmysql.example.com xdatabase <./myfile.txt
