hey all. Let me throw out a quick question. We are upgrading from some version of 4.1 to the latest version of 5.0. MySQL recommends that you dump and re-import data with this type of move. Not only do they recommend the dump/import - it would be nice to optimize all our tables at the same time!!
I have done a test dump of a couple of gigs of data with just a straight mysqldump. That worked, but the import is happening slower than Christmas. I know that one technique for speeding up the imports is to where you configure the dump so that it generates file(s) with the schema for the table(s) and file(s) with actual data. Then you can use the load data infile command to import the data after generating the new tables (maybe by using 'mysql <table1.sql'). So here is the problem. It worked, but it was slow. Not because of the speed of the import but because I am having to issue a command (and type in the root password) for each table import. I could do the following: 'cat *.sql > database.sql' to get a complete schema for all the tables in the database and then just 'mysql < database.sql' to set up all the tables at the same time. You can't do that with the import of the actual data. You have to individually load the data into each table. something like 'load data infile /root/table1.txt'. This is fine for one..but what happens when you have 100 tables? I can't take the time to sit there and hit the up-arrow to retrieve the command and then type in the new file name. Is there some way to automate this data import? Thanks, Keith -- B. Keith Murphy Database Administrator iContact 2635 Meridian Parkway, 2nd Floor Durham, North Carolina 27713 (o) 919-433-0786 (c) 850-637-3877
