"Robert Blackwell" <me@email.com> wrote in message
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> The command prompt flashed briefly when it ran and it did create a .sql
> file using the name formatting, however, it is still an empty file.

You should open a "cmd" shell window and run the bat script by typing its
name. Then if it has any error messages in its output, you'll see them. If
you run the bat script by double-clicking the bat file, the command window
disappears too quickly; you may not see any errors it prints.

So do you actually have a database called "dbname" or is that something you
need to change, just like the username/password?

> I've tried waiting a couple of minutes refreshing now and then but the
> file does not increase in size as it would if I was dumping from a program
> such as mysqlfront.

Once you get a prompt back (or the window closes), the bat script is
finished. There will not be any further output going into that file.

Regards,
Bill K.