Export a large MySQL table as multiple smaller files

Question

I have a very large MySQL table on my local dev server: over 8 million rows of data. I loaded the table successfully using LOAD DATA INFILE.

I now wish to export thi

Answer 1

As an example of the mysqldump approach for a single table

mysqldump -u root -ppassword yourdb yourtable > table_name.sql

Importing is then as simple as

mysql -u username -ppassword yourotherdb < table_name.sql