Creating an installation script
When we develop an application that interacts with a database, we need to create a script that recreates the same database structure on other computers. The creation of the application database is part of the installation process.
This database install script is usually a text file that contains the SQL commands to create the database. By convention, this file has a .sql extension. As mentioned in Chapter 1, Installing MariaDB, the most common way to execute a file containing queries is by passing it to the mysql command-line client. For example:
mysql -uroot -pmypassword < install_db.sql
The fastest way to create such a script is by using mysqldump. This tool, mainly used to create backups, will be discussed in ...
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