simonw / db-to-sqlite

CLI tool for exporting tables or queries from any SQL database to a SQLite file
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Add documentation covering mysql:// and postgresql:// connection strings #11

Closed simonw closed 5 years ago

simonw commented 5 years ago

Expecting people to know SQLAlchemy connection string syntax is not reasonable, especially since I have to look it up myself every time!

This should be in the output from --help as well as in the README.

simonw commented 5 years ago

I'll show basic examples for MySQL and Postgres and provide a link to https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/engines.html#database-urls