A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a simple
file format that is widely supported, so it is
often used to move tabular data between different computer
programs that support the format. CSV file is a
text format for a database table. Each record in the table is one
line of the text file. Each field value of a record is separated
from the next with a comma. For example, a CSV file might be used
to transfer information from a database to a spreadsheet or
another database. Of course, there are more advanced formats to
store data, for example, XML, but CSV does have one advantage
over XML. CSV has much lower overhead, thereby using much less
bandwidth and storage than XML.
Now let’s analyse how one can save data from a MySQL table to a
CSV file.
The first and very likely the easiest way is to
change Storage Engine to CSV and save it to some archived file …
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