On 5/19/2010 1:12 PM, Cool Guy wrote:
mysqldump is more like a backup tool and is used to dump the whole table/database rather than select records ...

The workaround we came up with is dump the data to a temp table and then use a python program to convert and dump the table in CSV format. Though it works, I feel it is redundant and not so efficient way of doing things.

On second thought, you CAN use the mysql -e IF you do this (as an example):

mysql -u root -p -Nsr -e "SELECT CONCAT('\"',FirstName,'\",\"',LastName,'\"') from db.users"

Change to suit.


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Brian Evans <grknight@scent-team.com> wrote:
On 5/19/2010 12:58 PM, Cool Guy wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion. We can dump the file to the server where the
> database is hosted but this problem revolves around 2 different
> servers - 1. Client, 2. Database.
>
> So we want to dump the output to the client and MySQL has no such
> implementation. I explored the -e option and specifying the server
> name but it outputs only .txt file and there is no way of specifying
> CSV or pipe-delimited file.
>
> Thank you...

This calls for mysqldump then.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html

Other 3rd party clients can do this too.

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