Create MySQL Database with .SQL File

Question

I don't know much about MySQL at all. But I am trying to reverse engineer a MySQL database using Visio. I know what steps I should take to do this, but I can't get my database to show in the 'Databases' section (as below):

How do I create the MySQL database using the .SQL file and get it to show up in this list? I have tried this code: mysql -u username -p password database_name < filename.sql using my own credentials of course. But that doesn't seem to work. In what folder should the .SQL file be placed if this statement is to work?

Answer 1

1) Create a file "filename.sql"

2) Create a database in your DB in which you want to import this file.

3) From command-prompt/terminal, move to the directory where you have created a "filename.sql".

4) Run the command: mysql -u username -p password database_name < filename.sql. (You can also give the proper path of your file and run this command from anywhere). It might be the case that you don't have a password set for MySQL. If so, mysql -u username database_name < filename.sql will also work.

In your case if you have created a database with name ojs and also created a file with name ojs.sql in C: drive then run the following command:

Edit: Put the path inside quotes.

mysql -u username -p password ojs < "C:\ojs.sql"

There is another way of importing tables in mysql. You can do it this way as well:

1) Connect your database

2) Type command "use ojs;"

3) Type command "source C:/ojs.sql"

Answer 2

Most MySQL SQL files that create databases create the database 'on-the-fly', so you typically needn't do anything except:

1. log-in

   mysql -u [username] -p[password]

(Note: make sure you do NOT include a space (' ') character between the -p and the [password]. MySQL will think that [password] is the name of the database you want to connect to. The 'general' log-in (above) does not assume you want to connect to any particular schema.)

1. source the file (do not use quotes around filename)

   mysql> source [database_creation_file].sql

Answer 3

you can simply do it using mysql workbench

1> create a new query tab 2> CREATE DATABASE database_name; 3> USE database_name; 4> open the filename.sql file and execute it ctrl + shift + enter 5> all the tables in the filename.sql are created

Answer 4

To create a MySQL database using a SQL file, you can follow these steps:

1. Log in to your MySQL server using the mysql command-line tool and the appropriate credentials.

2. Use the CREATE DATABASE command to create a new database with the desired name:

CREATE DATABASE database_name;

3. Use the USE command to switch to the newly created database:

USE database_name;

4. Use the SOURCE command to import the SQL file into the database:

SOURCE path/to/sql/file;

5. The database will now be created and populated with the data from the SQL file. You can verify this by running some SQL queries against the database.

It's important to note that this process assumes that the SQL file contains valid SQL statements compatible with the version of MySQL you are using. If the SQL file contains any errors or unsupported statements, they will be displayed in the mysql command-line tool, and the import process will be interrupted.