Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Tim McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Michael Dykman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's quite simple; -p, --password takes an optional argument which > > it will only look for if > >a) the short form is immediately followed by a no

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-12 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Michael Dykman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You misunderstand. I realize that putting the password on the command line is insecure in the presence of "ps auxwww" and Process Explorer and such. I'm kvetching about how mysql and mysqldump parse their arguments, that *

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Dykman
> You misunderstand. I realize that putting the password on the command > line is insecure in the presence of "ps auxwww" and Process Explorer > and such. I'm kvetching about how mysql and mysqldump parse their > arguments, that > * -uUSERNAME and -pPASSWORD are parsed similarly > * -

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-11 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Richard Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How very inconsistent and obnoxious. But yet far more secure. You misunderstand. I realize that putting the password on the command line is insecure in the presence of "ps auxwww" and Process Explorer and such. I'm kvetching abou

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-11 Thread Richard Heyes
How very inconsistent and obnoxious. But yet far more secure. FWIW, if you're transferring between machines you can gzip the output of mysqldump to compress it, resulting in far less transfer time. Eg. mysqldump -u username -p database_name | gzip -c > dump.sql.gz IIRC -- Richard Heyes Em

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Terry Babbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I use the method below, will that transfer the mysql admin database too with the user information? nohup mysqldump -h -u -p --all-databases --routin

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Terry Babbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all for the quick replies. > > Yes, the mysqldump worked perfectly. Boy do I feel like a newbie now! > > If I use the method below, will that transfer the mysql admin database > too with the user information? >

RE: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Terry Babbey
PROTECTED] Sent: March 10, 2008 2:52 PM To: Daniel Brown; Terry Babbey Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Migrate HUGE Database You can take this a step further nohup mysqldump -h -u -p --all-databases --routines --triggers | mysql -h -A This will pipe all the data directly to Windows machine

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Phil
mysqldump from the commandline. You are most likely running into php execution time limits using phpmyadmin OR you could probably just copying the underlying files, .frm,MYI and MYD I've successfully done that with myisam databases going from version 4 - 5 on tables exceeding 50M rows. Not sure a

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Warren Young
Tim McDaniel wrote: I was a bit puzzled seeing "-p database_name", ... How very inconsistent and obnoxious. It's best to think of -p as never taking an argument, always asking interactively. Many operating systems will let a processes access the command line parameters of another process

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mysqldump -u username -p database_name > database_name.sql To explain: -u usernameReplace 'username' with the database username. -p This signifies that you'll use a password

RE: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Rolando Edwards
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:40 PM To: Terry Babbey Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Migrate HUGE Database On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Terry Babbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a huge database that I would like to migrat

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread D Hill
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 14:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello, I have a huge database that I would like to migrate from a server running 4.0.16 to a server running the Windows version 5.0.45. The database is approximately 3,500,000 records. I get timeout errors using PHPMyAdmin to e

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Terry Babbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a huge database that I would like to migrate from a server > running 4.0.16 to a server running the Windows version 5.0.45. The > database is approximately 3,500,000 records. I get timeout errors using

Re: Migrate HUGE Database

2008-03-10 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Terry Babbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a huge database that I would like to migrate from a server > running 4.0.16 to a server running the Windows version 5.0.45. The > database is approximately 3,500,000 records. I get timeout errors using >