I'm guessing here but it sounds like you have the cmd.sql file on your local machine (in Europe). If that's the case, compress the file, ftp it to the US server, uncompress it and do the load locally on the US server.
If you're doing the update remotely, you're probably being killed by transmission time. Transferring the file in toto to the US server will be quicker than having the communications lag of doing sending a command from Europe to the US, having the command execute and then receiving the status back in Europe...times 5000 records. Hope this helps, Jack -----Original Message----- From: William Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: many updates really slow Hi everyone, Please help. I have MySQL server running on host A in US and I am using it on host B in Europe. Every query takes about 0.3 seconds. Now I want to do update db with 5000 updates. So I put all the "UPDATES" commands in a file cmd.sql and do: mysql -hA < cmd.sql and it takes 30 MINUTES which is reasonable: 0.3 * 5000 but unbearable. Is there any better way to do this? Am I doing something stupid? Thanks a lot. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
