Sometimes you want to test migrations with production or staging data. Dumping single tables makes sense if a complete dump would be to big.

mysqldump -u deploy_user -p application_production table1 table2 table2 > table1_table2_table2.sql.dump

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Hint: If a table has to many constraints, a complete dump could be more handy.

Further reading:

• How to load only a subset of a massive MySQL dump
• How to import production database dump to staging (or the other way)