restore database from dump via console

Question

I am trying to restore database from db.sql dump I have installed mysql (both client and server), when I have installed server I defined password for root user and I am trying to restore DB with such command

nnn@nnn:~/prj/myprj$mysql -user=root -password=qwerty <db.sql

But I get the following error ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'ser=root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I have just create this password so it could not be wrong. Perhaps something else wrong in syntax? (I am using ubuntu by the way)

Answer 1

You need double dashes in front of long option names like --user , with singe dash it is taken as short option -u and the rest is taken as user name ser=root

So it is either

mysql --user=root --password=qwerty db_name < db.sql

or with short options

mysql -uroot -pqwerty db_name < db.sql