Tuesday, June 14, 2011

MySQL create user

To create user:


CREATE USER 'username'@'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

To grant all privileges to user on a specific database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'username'@'host';

MySQL import dump

To import database from a dumped sql file:


  • Login to mysql

  • Create database with the specific name:


    create database database_name;


  • Exit mysql.

  • Import the contents of the database from a file:

    mysql -u user -p database_name < database_dump.sql