mysqldump throws: Unknown table ‘COLUMN_STATISTICS’ in information_schema (1109)

This is due to a new flag that is enabled by default in mysqldump 8. You can disable it by adding –column-statistics=0. The command will be something like: mysqldump –column-statistics=0 –host=<server> –user=<user> –password=<password> Check this link for more information. To disable column statistics by default, you can add [mysqldump] column-statistics=0 to a MySQL config file, … Read more