mysqldump table per *.sql file batch script - batch-file

Question

I have done some digging around and I can not find a way to make mysqldump create a file per table. I have about 100 tables (and growing) that I would like to be dumped into separate files without having to write a new mysqldump line for each table I have.
E.g. instead of my_huge_database_file.sql which contains all the tables for my DB.
I'd like mytable1.sql, mytable2.sql etc etc
Does mysqldump have a parameter for this or can it be done with a batch file? If so how.
It is for backup purposes.
I think I may have found a work around, and that is to make a small PHP script that fetches the names of my tables and runs mysqldump using exec().
$result = $dbh->query("SHOW TABLES FROM mydb") ;
while($row = $result->fetch()) {
exec('c:\Xit\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe -uroot -ppw mydb > c:\dump\\'.$row[0]) ;
}
In my batch file I then simply do:
php mybackupscript.php

Answer 1

Instead of SHOW TABLES command, you could query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. This way you could easily dump every table for every database and also know how many tables there are in a given database (i.e. for logging purposes). In my backup, I use the following query:
SELECT DISTINCT CONVERT(`TABLE_SCHEMA` USING UTF8) AS 'dbName'
, CONVERT(`TABLE_NAME` USING UTF8) AS 'tblName'
, (SELECT COUNT(`TABLE_NAME`)
FROM `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`TABLES`
WHERE `TABLE_SCHEMA` = dbName
GROUP BY `TABLE_SCHEMA`) AS 'tblCount'
FROM `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`TABLES`
WHERE `TABLE_SCHEMA` NOT IN ('INFORMATION_SCHEMA', 'PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA', 'mysql')
ORDER BY 'dbName' ASC
, 'tblName' ASC;
You could also put a syntax in the WHERE clause such as TABLE_TYPE != 'VIEW', to make sure that the views will not get dump.

Answer 2

I can't test this, because I don't have a Windows MySQL installation, but this should point you to the right direction:
#echo off
mysql -u user -pyourpassword database -e "show tables;" > tables_file
for /f "skip=3 delims=|" %%TABLE in (tables_file) do (mysqldump -u user -pyourpassword database %%TABLE > %%TABLE.sql)