SELECT
     CONCAT("[",
          GROUP_CONCAT(
               CONCAT("{name:'",name,"'"),
               CONCAT(",email:'",email,"'}")
          )
     ,"]")
AS json FROM students WHERE enrolled IS NULL;

class Student(object):
    '''The model, a plain, ol python class'''
    def __init__(self, name, email, enrolled):
        self.name = name
        self.email = email
        self.enrolled = enrolled

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<Student(%r, %r)>" % (self.name, self.email)

    def make_dict(self):
        return {'name': self.name, 'email': self.email}



import sqlalchemy
metadata = sqlalchemy.MetaData()
students_table = sqlalchemy.Table('students', metadata,
        sqlalchemy.Column('id', sqlalchemy.Integer, primary_key=True),
        sqlalchemy.Column('name', sqlalchemy.String(100)),
        sqlalchemy.Column('name', sqlalchemy.String(100)),
        sqlalchemy.Column('enrolled', sqlalchemy.Date)
    )

# connect the database.  substitute the needed values.
engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mysql://user:pass@host/database')

# if needed, create the table:
metadata.create_all(engine)

# map the model to the table
import sqlalchemy.orm
sqlalchemy.orm.mapper(Student, students_table)

# now you can issue queries against the database using the mapping:
non_students = engine.query(Student).filter_by(enrolled=None)

# and lets make some json out of it:
import json
non_students_dicts = ( student.make_dict() for student in non_students)
students_json = json.dumps(non_students_dicts)

$ gem install mysql2xxxx

$ mysql2json --user=root --password=password --database=database_name --execute "select * from mytable" >mytable.json

$sql = "select ...";
$db = new PDO ( "mysql:$dbname", $user, $password) ;
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->fetchAll();

file_put_contents("output.txt", json_encode($result));

# ruby ./export-mysql.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => "mysql",
  :database => "database_name",
  :username => "root",
  :password => "",
  :host => "localhost"
)

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base; end
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base; end

File.open("events.json", "w") { |f| f.write Event.all.to_json }
File.open("people.json", "w") { |f| f.write Person.all.to_json }

Person.all.to_json(:only => [ :id, :name ])

Person.all.to_xml
Person.all.to_yaml

require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.configurations["mysql"] = {
  :adapter  => 'mysql',
  :database => 'database_name',
  :username => 'root',
  :password => '',
  :host     => 'localhost'
}


ActiveRecord::Base.configurations["sqlite3"] = {
  :adapter  => 'sqlite3',
  :database => 'db/development.sqlite3'
}

class PersonMySQL < ActiveRecord::Base
  establish_connection "mysql"
end

class PersonSQLite < ActiveRecord::Base
  establish_connection "sqlite3"
end


PersonMySQL.all.each do |person|
    PersonSQLite.create(person.attributes.except("id"))
end

SELECT json_array(
         group_concat(json_object( name, email))
FROM ....
WHERE ...

[
   {
     "name": "something",
     "email": "someone@somewhere.net"
    },
   {
     "name": "someone",
     "email": "something@someplace.com"
    }

]

require 'mysql2'

client = Mysql2::Client.new(
  :host => 'your_host', `enter code here`
  :database => 'your_database',
  :username => 'your_username',
  :password => 'your_password')
table_sql = "show tables"
tables = client.query(table_sql, :as => :array)

open('_output.json', 'a') { |f|
    tables.each do |table|
        sql = "select * from `#{table.first}`"
        res = client.query(sql, :as => :json)
        f.puts res.to_a.join(",") + "n"
    end
}

from contextlib import closing
from datetime import datetime
import json
import MySQLdb
DB_NAME = 'x'
DB_USER = 'y'
DB_PASS = 'z'

def get_tables(cursor):
    cursor.execute('SHOW tables')
    return [r[0] for r in cursor.fetchall()]

def get_rows_as_dicts(cursor, table):
    cursor.execute('select * from {}'.format(table))
    columns = [d[0] for d in cursor.description]
    return [dict(zip(columns, row)) for row in cursor.fetchall()]

def dump_date(thing):
    if isinstance(thing, datetime):
        return thing.isoformat()
    return str(thing)


with closing(MySQLdb.connect(user=DB_USER, passwd=DB_PASS, db=DB_NAME)) as conn, closing(conn.cursor()) as cursor:
    dump = {}
    for table in get_tables(cursor):
        dump[table] = get_rows_as_dicts(cursor, table)
    print(json.dumps(dump, default=dump_date, indent=2))