MySQL cheat sheet - janosgyerik/cheatsheets GitHub Wiki

Configuration

It is a hassle to enter the password on the command line every time you run the client. It is better to add it to ~/.my.cnf like this:

[client]
database=dbname
user=dbuser
password=dbpass
host=dbhost
port=dbport

And don't forget to protect the permissions of the file:

chmod go-rwx ~/.my.cnf

Indexes

-- Create a table with indexes:
CREATE TABLE tname (
    col1 int,
    ...
    INDEX (col1)
) 

-- Show indexes on a table:
SHOW INDEX FROM tname;

Managing users

-- Create user identified by some password
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* TO 'dbuser'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'userpass';

-- Create database with some encoding
CREATE DATABASE bugtracker DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;  

Get schema and other info

desc tablename;
 
show variables like "character_set_database";

Dump database

mysqldump bugtracker --default-character-set=utf8 > bugtracker.dump
mysqldump bugtracker --default-character-set=utf8 -r bugtracker.dump
mysqldump bugtracker --default-character-set=utf8 --skip-extended-insert | grep mantis_bug_text.*some_pattern_in_the_record

If your tables have utf-8 encoded data in them, dumping can be non-intuitive. You must test restoring from the dump you created to make sure you will not lose your utf-8 or unicode encoded data.

Misc

set names utf8;

source filepath.dump

-- Export data in CSV format
-- note: this requires the *FILE* permission
SELECT id, country FROM countries WHERE eutax = 1
INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/country.txt' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

ALTER TABLE syntax

ALTER TABLE tt CHANGE old_col_name new_col_name column_definition;

Duplicate a table

CREATE TABLE dupe AS SELECT * FROM other_table;