It might be a little late for this advice but mysqldump has some useful options for this kind of thing. When I use it to create full snapshots, I use a script which generates a separate schema file per table/view and keep the data in one or more per table for data. naming conventions keep keep the files grouped. the little known --where option is handy for the later.
As for editors, I have used vi frequently in the past to edit larger-than-RAM files but never anything that big. On 4/19/07, Mogens Melander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, April 19, 2007 12:48, Duncan Hill wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:43:34 molemenacer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have backed up a database using mysqldump and have a .sql script that >> is >> over 2GB in size. I am trying to open this file to view it and make >> some >> changes. I have not been able to find a program that can open this >> file. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions as to a program that can do this? > > You need an editor that will only load the current view of the file into > memory. I'm not sure that such a beast exists, other than stream editors > such as sed or perl. Can the changes you need to make be done with stream > editing (simple changes like changing a word or two are very easy with > stream > editor)? Also, replace from your mysql-installation could be used,if you only need to replace "a-string" with "b-string" :) -- Later Mogens Melander +45 40 85 71 38 +66 870 133 224 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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