Importing a MySQL database with a new name where the original still exists

So you want to export your MySQL database then import it on the same server with a new name.

I tried this several times and using the SOURCE command inside MySQL or just mysql -p < db.sql both resulted in the database re-importing over the original name.

To fix that run:

sed -i 's/OLDDATABASENAME/NEWDBNAME/g' mysqldumpFile.sql

Then run:

mysql -p

create NEWDBNAME;

use NEWDBNAME;

SOURCE /path/to/sql/file

No need for a semicolon on the last line.

Then check the success by:

show tables;