I am on a windows machine (WAMP) to do my development work locally on my machine, and post changes to a remote testing server (linux) for others to test (I'm currently the only developer on the project). Anyway I have cygwin installed on my machine and can SSH into the remote server, so I was going to write a little bash script to update the remote database. Basically a mysqldump, an ssh connection and then a mysqlimport.

Long story short I just want to install the mysql command line utilities on cygwin without having to compile and install the mysql server itself. Is this possible?

I'm sure that the Cygwin installer comes with options for packages, one of which is MySQL.

Otherwise no, you'll have to compile/install it.

I've searched through all the packages in the installer and there are no mysql packages. After thinking about it I think I', just going to write a little PHP script to connect and update the other database.

If you're running everything else on Windows why not the mysql utils as well, and make it a Windows .bat file? Your mysql install should have given you the mysql and mysqldump binaries already, PuTTY will give you ssh and scp.