How to rename a MySQL database?

For InnoDB, the following seems to work: create the new empty database, then rename each table in turn into the new database:

1	RENAME TABLE old_db.table TO new_db.table;

You will need to adjust the permissions after that. For scripting in a shell, you can use either of the following:

1 2	mysql -u username -ppassword old_db -sNe 'show tables' \| while read table; \ do mysql -u username -ppassword -sNe "rename table old_db.$table to new_db.$table"; done

Notes:

There is no space between the option -p and the password. If your database has no password, remove the -u username -ppassword part.
If some table has a trigger, it cannot be moved to another database using above method (will result Trigger in wrong schema error). If that is the case, use a traditional way to clone a database and then drop the old one:
mysqldump old_db | mysql new_db
If you have stored procedures, you can copy them afterwards:
mysqldump -R old_db | mysql new_db

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