make mysqldump to sort columns alphabetically

way you could solve this is to conform the column orders between
the two versions.

For example, if one table, t6, has columns id, name, and address and
the same table in the second database is id, address, name, you could
just ALTER the second database t6 table to be id, name, address:

mysqldescribe t6;

| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

| id | int(9) | N | PRI | 0 | |
| address | varchar(32) | YES | | | |
| name | varchar(32) | YES | MUL | | |

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysqlalter table t6 change column address address varchar(32) after
name;
Query K, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysqldescribe t6;

| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

| id | int(9) | N | PRI | 0 | |
| name | varchar(32) | YES | MUL | | |
| address | varchar(32) | YES | | | |

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Here is the mysql documentation on ALTER TABLE: http://dev.mysql.com/

Douglas Sims
Doug (AT) Apley (DOT) com

Sep 8, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Nikita Tovstoles wrote:

Hi,

I'm diffing two versions of a schema produced using mysqldump and
would like to know if there's a way to make mysqldump sort entries
inside CREATE statements (say alphabetically or in some other way)?
Currently some of the column declarations are juxtaposed between
the versions and thus produce "false" diffs.

Mysql 5.0, InnoDB

thanks a lot
-nikita
--

Thanks, Douglas!

That seems K, but I'd prefer to avoid altering the schemas in any way.
In particular altering order of constraints seems error-prone, given
that one is essentially re-defining these, not simply rearranging the
order. Am I asking for impossible? ;-
-nikita

Douglas Sims wrote:
way you could solve this is to conform the column orders between
the two versions.

For example, if one table, t6, has columns id, name, and address and
the same table in the second database is id, address, name, you could
just ALTER the second database t6 table to be id, name, address:

mysqldescribe t6;

| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

| id | int(9) | N | PRI | 0 | |
| address | varchar(32) | YES | | | |
| name | varchar(32) | YES | MUL | | |

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysqlalter table t6 change column address address varchar(32) after
name;
Query K, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysqldescribe t6;

| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

| id | int(9) | N | PRI | 0 | |
| name | varchar(32) | YES | MUL | | |
| address | varchar(32) | YES | | | |

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Here is the mysql documentation on ALTER TABLE:

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Douglas Sims
Doug (AT) Apley (DOT) com
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Sep 8, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Nikita Tovstoles wrote:
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>Hi,
>>
>I'm diffing two versions of a schema produced using mysqldump and
>would like to know if there's a way to make mysqldump sort entries
>inside CREATE statements (say alphabetically or in some other way)?
>Currently some of the column declarations are juxtaposed between the
>versions and thus produce "false" diffs.
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>Mysql 5.0, InnoDB
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>thanks a lot
>-nikita
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