Limiting the number of records from mysqldump?

mysql

Solution

As skaffman says, use the --where option:

mysqldump --opt --where="1 limit 1000000" database

Of course, that would give you the first million rows from every table.

Problem

I am trying to load a small sample of records from a large database into a test database. How do you tell mysqldump to only give you n records out of 8 million? Thanks

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