There must be some thing went wrong with your settings in my.cnf
file.For an 3 million records 24 hrs is bad :(
> |myisam_sort_buffer_size value in my.cnf ?
Also you can apporx check the status by doing file size check on the
table in database dir and the temoprory table created in the data base dir .
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Praj
|Helen M Hudson wrote:
let you know shortly or I have a table with about 3million rows and
I'm having trouble altering it to add 4 more columns. I'm using the
MySQL Administrator and I've left it more than 24hours and its still
not finished. I was going to try using a login to the console next,
but is there a better way? Any advice much appreciated!
Helen
