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The mysqldump can be used to dump a database or a collection of databases for backup or for transferring the data to another MySQL server.
Execute the following command to get the dump of a table.
$ mysqldump -uusername -p databasename tablename > dump_filename.sql
This table can be added to the database using the following command.
$ mysql -uusername -p databasename < dump_filename.sql
In order to take dump of N tables named table1, table2.table3….tableN use the following syntax:
$ mysqldump -uusername -p databasename table1 table2 table3 …. tableN > dump_filename.sql
