MySQL Workbench is a desktop GUI product from MySQL itself. It does much more than importing and exporting with features like server health monitoring, SQL data modeling, and more.

I would like to know whether a MySQL database can be copied from one machine to another using the mysqldump command instead of taking a snapshot by copying the data directory.

There may be times when you'll want to copy a MySQL database to a website. For example, if you are going to make changes to your company website, you should edit a copy of the site, not the live ...