How to take dump of the database?

MySQL provides mysqldump utility, which is simple to use. Go to command line and stay there at where MySQL is installed. As with me, I am using Windows and at my system MySQL is installed at C:\AppServ\MySQL. So you may do the following to take dump of the database using mysqldump utility:

1. C:\AppServ>MySQL>
2. Run mysqldump utility giving required options like mysqldump --password=password --user=user_name db_name > db_name_dump.sql

Take an example looks like below at command prompt:

C:\AppServ\MySQL>mysqldump --password=root --user=root test > test_dump.sql