How to add an existing schema to mysql on windows?

by mallory_cormier , in category: MySQL , 10 months ago

How to add an existing schema to mysql on windows?

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by orpha , 10 months ago

@mallory_cormier 

To add an existing schema to MySQL on Windows, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open a command prompt or the MySQL Command Line Client.
  2. Log in to MySQL as the root user or any other user with sufficient privileges using the following command: mysql -u root -p
  3. Enter the password for the root user (or the user you logged in with).
  4. Once logged in, create a new database schema using the following command: CREATE DATABASE
  5. Exit the MySQL Command Line Client by typing exit and pressing Enter.
  6. Locate the SQL script file for the existing schema that you want to import. It should have a .sql extension.
  7. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory where the SQL script file is located. You can use the cd command to change directories.
  8. Run the following command to import the existing schema into the newly created database: mysql -u
  9. Enter the password for the MySQL user when prompted.
  10. Wait for the import process to complete. MySQL will execute the SQL statements in the script file and create the tables, views, and other objects in the specified schema.


Once the import is complete, you can verify the schema and its objects by logging back into the MySQL Command Line Client and running queries against the new schema.