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How to dump or export all the table definitions in a MySQL database

So you haveĀ  a database with loads of tables. You want the table definitions of all of them. You don’t really need the data. mysqldump to the rescue!

mysqldump -u USERNAME –password=PASSWORD –no-data –opt DB1 > DUMPFILE

That’s it! Easy as a pie The key here is the –no-data option. It dumps all the table [...]