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need to do a "restore" into the database using mySql

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This is probably a no brainer (I'm new to Navicat) but I have a backup of a database from Navicat.

I want to be able to see if a certain field has changed since this morning in the backup (We are having problems with an order that somehow "duplicated" the items. I need to see if there was only 1 of each item or two removed from inventory). I don't need to do a "restore" into the database, just have a look at the backup.

Is this possible without going through the hoops of creating a copy of the database and restoring to the copy (I assume this is possible) - I DO NOT want to restore into the currently running database :-)

posted Jul 5, 2013 by anonymous

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If the Navicat backup used the same process as mysqldump, then your table's data is stored in a plain-text SQL script.

Step 1) find the CREATE TABLE... command for the table you are interested in.

Step 2) Just after the table's definition, you should see a sequence of INSERT commands. Those are your rows. Use your find or grep or search skills to identify the primary key values for the rows you are interested in. Visually parse that row (it's contained in its own set of () parentheses) to find the 'old' values you seek.

Sorry that it's such a manual process but you didn't want to restore so you get to pretend to be the database server :)

answer Jul 5, 2013 by anonymous
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