MySQL: How to clone a database

Here is a way to create a duplicate of one database, with all its tables and their data, under a new
name.
1. Make a dump of your source database:

COPY

mysqldump -uroot -p my_project -r my_project.sql

Or, if you only want to dump the database's table structure (schema) without any contents:

COPY

mysqldump -uroot -p my_project -r my_project.sql --no-data

2. Open up a MySQL shell:

COPY

mysql -uroot -p

3. From the MySQL shell, create a new database and populate it with the dumped data:

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CREATE DATABASE my_project_copy;

USE my_project_copy;
SOURCE my_project.sql;
4. Create a user and give it permissions to the new database:

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CREATE USER new_user IDENTIFIED BY 'some_password';

GRANT ALL ON my_projec