Enable binary mode while restoring a Database from an SQL dump

Question

I am extremely new to MySQL and am running it on Windows. I am trying to restore a Database from a dumpfile in MySQL, but I get the following error:

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Answer 1

I had this error once, after running mysqldump on Windows PowerShell like so:

mysqldump -u root p my_db --no-data --no-create-db --no-create-info --routines --triggers --skip-opt --set-gtid-purged=OFF > db_objects.sql

What I did was change it to this (pipe instead to Set-Content):

mysqldump -u root p my_db --no-data --no-create-db --no-create-info --routines --triggers --skip-opt --set-gtid-purged=OFF | Set-Content db_objects.sql

And the problem went away!