The generally accepted answer to a mysqldump is: mysqldump -h [host] -u [user] -p [database_name] [table_name] > [file].sqlOr a variant there of...  Of course if you are logged in to the server and working from it you don't need to express the -h [host] mysqldump -u [user] -p [database_name] [table_name] > [file].sql  But no not for me.  I wasn't seeing the success story of a downloaded database file.  Instead I was warmly embraced by error land: mysqldump: Got...