Dumping MySQL table into CSV file

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Sometimes we need to get the MySQL tables into an Excel sheet. How this can be done? We can dump the MySQL tables into a csv format file. Lets see how to do it.


Login to your MySQL server.

[root@database ~]# mysql -p
Enter password:

Use the desired database
mysql> use database_name

Now for dumping the data of the table named "table_name" execute the command, the csv file will be save in /tmp. You can specify the destination in the command.

mysql> SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/table_name.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM table_name;
Query OK, 5000 rows affected (0.09 sec)
mysql>

If you need only first 250 RAWs, you can specify the limit as follows.

mysql> SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/table_name.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM table_name LIMIT 250;
Query OK, 250 rows affected (0.09 sec)
mysql>

Thats it. You can get the csv file to your windows system and can open with Microsoft Excel.

Check how to importing csv file to MySQL database table

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