In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan Harrington" write s:
> I have an ASCII CSV or Tab Delimited file that is roughly 3.5 > gigabytes, and I want to load it into a mysql database so I can do > some analysis. First of all, I'm wondering, is there anything I > should be aware of, or worried about, size-wise? Any ideas of how many records? > I know that I can't even look at the file using basic text functions > in my Linux box like 'head' or 'split' But, you can hack a small perl script that reads line by line flushing output, so you can at least look at it,. > There is a list of the fields in the file, so I know what my table > should look like, but I don't want to crash the SQL server if its > too large a file, or something else like that. I'd doubt that MySQL would crash about a few Million records. Well, you'd check if the disk space is there, too :-)-O > I didn't know how big it was originally, so I was just going to use > phpMyAdmin to load the file through a web browser.... though I > don't know if that will work either. Is there a size limitation to > HTTP-POST (I assume it uses that method to upload). Pumping 3.5 GB through an network unnecessarily is fairly silly, actually :-)-O el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> el108 * | Swakopmund State Hospital Private Bag 5004 \ / Telephone: +49 177 214 3196 (cell) Swakopmund, Namibia ;____/ Currently on Post Graduate Study Leave --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
