Guest Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Hi, I am installing a contibution called menu tabs v2 It wants me to "dump" various SQL commands? What does it mean to dump? I have mysql admin and use it to use SQL commands, but am not sure how I should "dump" the SQL that the author gives. thanks for your help, -Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevel Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Export is what you want. Steve Contributions: Country-State Selector Login Page a la Amazon Protection of Configuration Updated spiders.txt Embed Links with SID in Description Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 How would export help? I see that export means to saveing your database as another file, but what does that have to do with dump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevel Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Sorry, I have not looked at the contribution in question. Typically, when one refers to "dumping" a database, they mean to export the contents to a file that can be later imported. It could be that the contribution author meant something entirely different. If you have a series of SQL commands that are to be executed, to insert rows or create tables, then you want the "SQL" tab in phpmyadmin. Steve Contributions: Country-State Selector Login Page a la Amazon Protection of Configuration Updated spiders.txt Embed Links with SID in Description Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Hi, thanks a lot for your help. I do know how to use the SQL command as you said, but I'm a bit confused still about why the author would want me to "dump" the database. The reason I'm so concerned is because I tried not dumping the database and just inserting the commands into SQL and the contribution did not seem to work properly. Here are the instructions pertaining to dumping: --------------- Dumping data for table `tab_conf_active` # INSERT INTO tab_conf_active (tab_conf_active_id, tab_conf_active_name, tab_conf_active_on) VALUES (1, 'Default', 1); INSERT INTO tab_conf_active (tab_conf_active_id, tab_conf_active_name, tab_conf_active_on) VALUES (3, 'Right', 0); INSERT INTO tab_conf_active (tab_conf_active_id, tab_conf_active_name, tab_conf_active_on) VALUES (2, 'Left', 0); # -------------------------------------------------------- Can you make any sense of it? Thanks again, -Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevel Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Ok. The "dumping" is not part of the instructions - rather, it's output from the export command the author used. Just execute the INSERT commands. Steve Contributions: Country-State Selector Login Page a la Amazon Protection of Configuration Updated spiders.txt Embed Links with SID in Description Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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