Comments on: MySQL Copy Table from One Database to Another

By: admin

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:49:39 +0000

Ah yeah well spotted James

By: James Campanella

James Campanella — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:34:37 +0000

To tanvi, I don’t know if you’ve solved your problem yet or not, but it appears to me that the problem is in your back tick quotes. If you are specifying a database.table the proper backticks should be `database`.`table` for it to work in phpMyAdmin. It is not a bad idea to use quotes in the event you have a database name or field that ends up being a MySQL keyword or SQL command. Hope this helps.

By: Steve Childs

Steve Childs — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:47:05 +0000

Make sure that the user you are running the query as has sufficient rights for both the source and destination databases…

Also make sure you’re using the right quotes – you shouldn’t need to use quotes at all in those queries you posted, try it without.

The queries as posted here do work, I’ve just done them on two of my tables. The problem lies in your SQL server somewhere, my guess is one of the above reasons.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:54:27 +0000

are they MyISAM tables?

By: tanvi

tanvi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:47:28 +0000

Please help me as soon as possible…
Its very urgent..

By: tanvi

tanvi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:16:40 +0000

hai,i tried your code..but it is not working

I tried with this in phpmyadmin:

1st db name :employees1 —>table name:hai
2nd db name:employees —>table name:hai

My code is:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `employees1.hai`;
CREATE TABLE `employees1.hai` SELECT * FROM `employees.hai`;

but it shows error as in phpmyadmin.:

MySQL said: Documentation
#1103 – Incorrect table name ‘employees1.hai’ ..

Please help me as early as possible…

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:33:04 +0000

the most usually way would be to dump the table data to an SQL file (export in phpMyAdmin)

then save this file somewhere, upload it to the other machine and then import it.

there are other ways involving getting the machines talkign to each other directly, but for most purposes the dump method is going to be the easiest and therefore best.

By: ZIA

ZIA — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:33:21 +0000

Its so nice. Thaks for your conversations. But i need one more thing. how can i transfer a table data from one machine to another in MySQL?.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:38:42 +0000

can you tell us the exact sql you are pasting into the sql box on phpmyadmin?

By: troy

troy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:52:36 +0000

Hey Guys,

Im running the mysql 5.1.2 & myphpadmin 3.1 and this doesnt seem to work.

it tries to copy the table to the same database. Any help please?