Comments on: The quickest route from database results to CSV

By: Rafe

Rafe — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:37:43 +0000

mysqldump is cool for dumping the full contents of tables, but I find myself running complex SELECT statements that use GROUP BY and needing those results in Excel so that they can be further analyzed.

I didn't know about the -T flag for it, though. That's useful.

By: Flug

Flug — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:57:18 +0000

hey Jake-The mysqldump tool works beautilfully!Thx for the link;)

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:18:09 +0000

Since it sounds like you have shell access to the box, try the mysqldump tool:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html

It’s nice. You want the -T option.

By: Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:41:53 +0000

I like http://www.php.net/fputcsv because it means you don’t need to worry about escaping characters.

By: Andy Fundinger

Andy Fundinger — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:58:42 +0000

Well, I just do it on the command line like this:

echo "SELECT * FROM users" | mysql  db_development > myUsers.csv

usually I develop the query on terminal session and then use a command to dump the final query data to a file.