On Monday 14 February 2005 03:52 am, Ben Clewett wrote: > I am having a lot of problems deleting a large amount of data. Say 20GB > from a 40GB table. I seem to get failure quite a lot (due NOT to mysql, > but bad hardware), then MySQL roles back the transaction, which takes as > many hours and starting the transaction. I also get this a lot:
There is a feature of DB2 that can do this.. Its really not always all its cracked up to be.. In this case, it would happily delete, if something goes wrong, your table is now marked bad.. The other 20million rows are now gone.. Is that what you want? What you need to do, is set up a simple script to delete 20,000 rows a time, and commit, just keep doing it till its done.. This way you could do 20,000 rows, wait a bit, do it again. or whatever. If it fails, you only rollback what it was doing during the transaction and you wont have to start all over. Jeff
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