Rob Sharp wrote:
Sluggers,
I've got a large (2.6G) MySQL dump containing extended SQL inserts which
I need to import onto a server.
Normally, I'd import using something like:
sudo nice mysql itm_integ < sqldump.sql
but in this case it grinds the server into the ground, presumably
because it loads the file into memory/swap as it imports.
I'm thinking I somehow need to split this file into manageable chunks to
import it, but the script I coded in PHP can't handle files of that size.
Anyone have any pointers on how I can split the file based on the string
'CREATE TABLE' or something like that? A file per table would be fine to
import.
there could be various reasons for this. e.g. if there are indexes in
the table-structure, you could speed up the the insert with dropping the
indexes first, importing the data and create the indexes after insert
again. this is because ususally autocommit is turned on and the indexes
are updated after each commit. and recalculation of indexes for a bunch
of rows is much faster than for each row.
if you are creating the dump by yourself, you could use the "-T" option
of the mysqldump-tool. this will create separated files for data and
create. check also "load data" for how to import the files generated.
how about splitting an sql into smaller chunks, sorry, i have no idea.
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