[ILUG] MySQL Database question

Robert Sweetnam linux at sweetnam.eu
Tue Nov 13 18:23:06 GMT 2007


Lars Hecking wrote:
>  
>> You can dump the entire contents of the database to an SQL file.
>>
>> MySQL comes with a utility called mysqldump so you would use is as follows:
> [...]
> 
>  Robert, is this procedure applicable for transfering databases from
>  MySQL4 to MySQL5?
>  
> 

Apologies for replying so late! But it should be possible. It is
possible to dump from v4 to 5 but it's not backwards compatible.

Cheers
Robert



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