You answered my question about phpmyadmin but I can’t find it nor the command lines. I know how to SFTP my .sql file to the new droplet, but the mysql command to import it into the database is gone.
Seems like this entire site changed overnight and I just started!
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Let’s say you want to import a mysql dump into a new database with a new user. <br>Where your mysqldump is source.sql <br> <br># Enter into MySQL using “root” user identified by password <br>mysql -u root -p <br> <br>#Create the database <br>mysql> CREATE DATABASE NEWDB; <br> <br>#Create the user <br>mysql> CREATE USER ‘newuser’@‘localhsot’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘newpass’; <br> <br>#Grant ALL privileges onthe new database to the new User <br>mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON NEWDB.* TO ‘newuser’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘newpass’; <br> <br>#Switch to the New Database <br>mysql> USE NEWDB; <br> <br>#Insert data from source.sql <br>mysql> SOURCE source.sql
mysql db_name < script.sql
Thanks for all of those ways to import into mysql. I got that working. Yay.