into-outfile

I've written a big sql script that creates a CSV file. I want to call a cronjob every night to create a fresh CSV file and have it available on the website. Say for example I'm store my file in '/home/sites/example.com/www/files/backup.csv' and my SQL is SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/home/sites/example.com/www/files/backup.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM ( .... MySQL gives me an error when the file already exists File '/home/sites/example.com/www/files/backup.csv' already exists Is there a way to make MySQL overwrite the file? I could have PHP

MySQL is awesome! I am currently involved in a major server migration and previously, our small database used to be hosted on the same server as the client. So we used to do this : SELECT * INTO OUTFILE .... LOAD DATA INFILE .... Now, we moved the database to a different server and SELECT * INTO OUTFILE .... no longer works, understandable - security reasons I believe. But, interestingly LOAD DATA INFILE .... can be changed to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE .... and bam, it works. I am not complaining nor am I expressing disgust towards MySQL. The alternative to that added 2 lines of extra code and a

Any ideas? SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/home/myacnt/docs/mysqlCSVtest.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '*' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM tbl_property WHERE managerGroupID = {$managerGroupID} Error: Access denied for user 'asdfsdf'@'localhost' (using password: YES) Pablo Santa Cruz Try executing this SQL command: > grant all privileges on YOUR_DATABASE.* to 'asdfsdf'@'localhost' identified by 'your_password'; > flush privileges; It seems that you are having issues with connecting to the database and not writing to the folder you’re mentioning. Also, make sure you have granted

I've a database table of timesheets with some common feilds. id, client_id, project_id, task_id, description, time, date There are more but thats the gist of it. I have an export running on that table to a CSV file overnight to give the user a backup of their data. It also is used as a data import for a macro Excel file with some custom reports. This all works with me looping through the timesheets with php and printing the lines to a file. The problem is with a big database it can take hours to run which isn't acceptable. So I rewrote it with the MySQL INTO OUTFILE command and it reduced it

Is it possible to include the headers somehow when using the MySQL INTO OUTFILE ? You'd have to hard code those headers yourself. Something like: SELECT 'ColName1', 'ColName2', 'ColName3' UNION ALL SELECT ColName1, ColName2, ColName3 FROM YourTable INTO OUTFILE '/path/outfile' matt The solution provided by Joe Steanelli works, but making a list of columns is inconvenient when dozens or hundreds of columns are involved. Here's how to get column list of table my_table in my_schema . -- override GROUP_CONCAT limit of 1024 characters to avoid a truncated result set session group_concat_max_len =