Database dump
A database dump contains a record of the table structure and/or the data from a database, and is usually in the form of a list of SQL queries. A database dump is most often used for backing up a database so that its contents can be restored in the event of data loss. Corrupted databases can often be recovered by analysis of the dump. Database dumps are often released by open source projects, to allow reuse of forking of the database. For example Wikipedia offers its articles in a database dump at download.wikimedia.org.