The MySQL Utilities that come with Workbench can make short work of some important tasks. Back before MySQL 4, I used to have to regualrly create a copy of a production database by using a script that used mysqldump to save the database, create the new database, and feed in the data from the dump. It was not pretty but it worked reasonable well. But I longed for a more universal, one step process to do this work. And now we have mysqldbcopy.


$mysqldbcopy \
--source=root:xxxx@localhost:3306:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \ 
--destination=root:xxxx@localhost:3306:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
world:world_copy
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Destination on localhost: ... connected.
# Copying database world renamed as world_copy
# Copying TABLE world.City
# Copying TABLE world.Country
# Copying TABLE world.CountryLanguage
# Copying data for TABLE world.City
# Copying data for TABLE world.Country
# Copying data for TABLE world.CountryLanguage
#...done.