> From: Mark Riehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Ilya/Doug - Thanks for the info. Sorry for not being too clear. Our > application will have an upload of a large (~5 MB) XML file, > it will need to > be parsed, and then stored in the database. The database will then be > manipulated by another process, data will be pulled out, and > an output XML > file will be generated. We're using the database as a common > are to share > the data. Its probably best then to have the upload process just upload the file, and some cron process, or a forked process actually load the file in the background. Now I'm getting OT for the DBI list .... so I'll stop now. As for MySQL load facilities, I'm not too familiar so I'll leave that for someone else, but I wasn't talking about INSERT statements... Douglas Wilson