Re: Dumping a Database via DBI

[infoninja]

The following wouldn't be through DBI (or Perl for that matter), but what about backing the database up using mysqldump ? While it is through the commandline, it's dumps out the contents of the db to SQL statements quite nicely.
Updated following athomason's comment below:
Very strange. One might even say icky. Then I guess the best bet is to dump it out the way you're trying.

[athomason]

Removed by the admins... strange, isn't it? I asked them about how I could get a copy of my database, and they said I couldn't, flat out. Got me to thinking that if I ever tried to switch providers perhaps they wouldn't give me back my data. In any case, this seemed an interesting thing to try through DBI.

[Russ]

Yikes!

Reading this made my hair stand on end. I used to work with a client who did exactly that (refused to give his client their data). We left his sorry $#& in a hurry.

Russ