Phpmyadmin export VIEW without DATABASE_NAME or ALGORITHM

Question

When exporting a sql dump with phpmyadmin it creates the VIEW table like this:

CREATE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` SQL SECURITY DEFINER 
VIEW `         


        

Answer 1

Maybe I'm not understanding... but this has always worked for me. There are no references to the database name and all definers get wiped out so it's super-easy to restore from the file it generates:

mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD database |  sed -e 's/DEFINER=[^*]*\*/\*/' > backup.sql

To restore:

mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD database < backup.sql

As long as the database you're restoring to exists (empty or not), works like a charm.