Nick Bartlett

By default, MySQL is enabled with strict_mode ON, which will most likely cause problems with older PHP applications written for MySQL 4.   For example, strict mode will return an error on insert statements if an empty string is provided where an integer is expected.

You may disable strict mode in one of two ways:

Open your “my.ini” file within the MySQL installation directory, and look for the text “sql-mode”.
Find:

# Set the SQL mode to strict
sql-mode=”STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION”

and change to

# Set the SQL mode to strict
sql-mode=”NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION”

or you can run the following in phpMyAdmin

SET @@global.sql_mode= ”;

While there is no “copy database” function for mysql, there is a way to automate the process better than saving a bunch of SQL to a file, then uploading the file. Mysqldump offers a way to copy a database to another existing database on the same server or a remote server. The official documentation is here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html , although their syntax doesn’t include the required username and password login syntax (if your database server requires a login, I hope).

Use the following on linux –
mysqldump nameofdatabase1 -u root -p | mysql –host=localhost -u root -p -C nameofdatabase2;

You’ll be prompted for the password and you’ll need to enter it twice. If your destination database is remote, then replace localhost with the IP address.