Dump a mysql database to a plaintext (CSV) backup from the command line

Question

I\'d like to avoid mysqldump since that outputs in a form that is only convenient for mysql to read. CSV seems more universal (one file per table is fine). But if there ar

Answer 1

Two line PowerShell answer:

# Store in variable
$Global:csv = (mysql -uroot -p -hlocalhost -Ddatabase_name -B -e "SELECT * FROM some_table") `
| ConvertFrom-Csv -Delimiter "`t"

# Out to csv
$Global:csv | Export-Csv "C:\temp\file.csv" -NoTypeInformation

Boom-bata-boom

-D = the name of your database

-e = query

-B = tab-delimited