How to Export MySQL Database Structure

The structure of a database can be exported using the mysqldump command in MySQL.

These are the steps for exporting the database structure:

1. Open the command line terminal or command prompt.
2. Navigate to the bin directory of MySQL, which is typically located within the bin subdirectory of the MySQL installation directory.
3. Export a database named [数据库名] into a file named [导出文件名].sql using the mysqldump command with the username [用户名].
4. Create a dump of the “mydatabase” database’s structure and save it to a file named “mydatabase_structure.sql” using the root user for MySQL.
5. Enter the correct password to start exporting the database structure.
6. After the export is completed, a .sql file will be generated in the current directory, named after the export file, which is the database structure file being exported.

Please note that this method only exports the structure of the database, excluding the data. If you still want to export the data, use other options of the mysqldump command such as –data or –complete-insert to export the data.