Enable binary mode while restoring a Database from an SQL dump

I am extremely new to MySQL and am running it on Windows. I am trying to restore a Database from a dumpfile in MySQL, but I get the following error:

$ >mysql -u root -p -h localhost -D database -o < dump.sql
ERROR: ASCII '\0' appeared in the statement, but this is not allowed unless option --binary-mode is enabled and mysql is run in non-interactive mode. Set --binary-mode to 1 if ASCII '\0' is expected. Query: 'SQLite format 3'.

I have tried putting --binary-mode in the ini file but it still gives the same error. What should I do? Please help.

UPDATE

As suggested by Nick in his comment I tried $ > mysql -u root -p -h localhost -D database --binary-mode -o < dump.sql but it gave me the following ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\☻'. It is a 500 Mb dump file, and when I view its contents using gVIM, all I can see is expressions and data which is not comprehensible.

Unzip the file, and then import again.

I meet the same problem in windows restoring a dump file. My dump file was created with windows powershell and mysqldump like:

mysqldump db > dump.sql

The problem comes from the default encoding of powershell is UTF16. To look deeper into this, we can use "file" utility of GNU, and there exists a windows version here.
The output of my dump file is:

Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators.

Then a conversion of coding system is needed, and there are various software can do this. For example in emacs,

M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system

then input required coding system such as utf-8.

And in the future, for a better mysqldump result, use:

mysqldump <dbname> -r <filename>

and then the output is handled by mysqldump itself but not redirection of powershell.

reference: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/44721/error-while-restoring-a-database-from-an-sql-dump

In Windows machine, please follows the preceding steps.

1. Open file in notepad.
2. Click on Save as
3. Select Encoding type UTF-8.

Now source your db.

I had this error once, after running mysqldump on Windows PowerShell like so:

mysqldump -u root p my_db --no-data --no-create-db --no-create-info --routines --triggers --skip-opt --set-gtid-purged=OFF > db_objects.sql

What I did was change it to this (pipe instead to Set-Content):

mysqldump -u root p my_db --no-data --no-create-db --no-create-info --routines --triggers --skip-opt --set-gtid-purged=OFF | Set-Content db_objects.sql

And the problem went away!

Extract your file with Tar archiving tool. you can use it in this way:

tar xf example.sql.gz

If you don't have enough space or don't want to waste time decompressing it, Try this command.

gunzip < compressed-sqlfile.gz | mysql -u root -p

Don't forget to replace compressed-sqlfile.gz with your file name.

.gz restore will not work without the command I provided above.

Have you tried opening in notepad++ (or another editor) and converting/saving us to UTF-8?

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7256049/notepad-converting-ansi-encoded-file-to-utf-8

Another option may be to use textwrangle to open and save the file as UTF-8: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

May be your dump.sql is having garbage character in beginning of your file or there is a blank line in beginning.

Its must you file dump.sql problem.Use Sequel Pro check your file ecoding.It should be garbage characters in your dump.sql.

I had the same problem, but found out that the dump file was actually a MSSQL Server backup, not MySQL.

Sometimes legacy backup files play tricks on us. Check your dump file.

On terminal window:

~$ cat mybackup.dmp 

The result was:

TAPE??G?"5,^}???Microsoft SQL ServerSPAD^LSFMB8..... etc...

To stop processing the cat command:

CTRL + C

zcat /path/to/file.sql.gz | mysql -u 'root' -p your_database

Under linux Ungzip your file using gunzip Edit your unzip sql file using >vi unzipsqlfile.sql

Remove the first binary line with esc dd go to the bottom of the file with esc shift g remove the last binary line with dd save the file esc x: Then reimport to mysql with : >mysql -u username -p new_database < unzipsqlfile.sql

I performed that with a 20go sql file from a jetbackup cpanel mysql backup. Be patient to wait vi doing the job for big files

The file you are trying to import is a zip file. Unzip the file and then try to import again.

Your File should be only .sql extension, (.zip, .gz .rar) etc will not support. example: dump.sql

You can use this to fix error:

zcat {address_sql_database(.tar.gz)} | mysql -u root -p {database_name} --binary-mode

I know the original posters question was solved, but I came here via Google, and the various answers eventually led me to discovering that my SQL was dumped with a different default charset than the one used to import it. I got the same error as the original question, but as our dump was piped into another MySQL client, we couldn't go the route of opening it with another tool and saving it differently.

For us, the solution turned out to be the --default-character-set=utf8mb4 option, to be used both on the call of mysqldump as well as the call to import it via mysql. Of course, the value of the parameter may differ for others facing the same problem, it's just important to keep it the same, as the servers (or the tools) default setting might be any charset.

Old but gold!

On MacOS (Catalina 10.15.7) it was a bit weird: I had to rename my dump.sql into dump.zip and after that, i had to use finder(!) to unzip it. in terminal, unzip dump.zip oder tar xfz dump.sql[or .gz .tar ...] leads to error msgs.

Finally, finder has unziped it totally fine, after that i could import the file without problems.

I had a similar problem. I exported all databases with mysqldump on a PowerShell:

mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases

When I tried to import it on a PowerShell:

mysql -u root -p < .\all-databases.sql

I got an error saying something with < being reserved for future versions.

So I tried the above command with cmd and got the same error like OP.

The solution was to use PowerShell and the following command:

Get-Content '.\all-databases.sql' | &mysql.exe -u user -p