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Import SQL file into Docker Compose Container
How to import a .sql dump file into a docker container created by docker-compose.
Get in there!
It took me a while to figure out how to properly import a .sql dump file into a docker container I had started with docker-compose. The recommended way was to import the data on creation of the container by adding the dump file to the /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d directory. I wanted to avoid this if possible because the dump file is a backup of a production database but the docker-compose file is shared in …
