Re: adding columns to a large table

2006-09-25 Thread Ehrwin Mina
At 12:53 PM 9/25/2006, Helen M Hudson wrote: I have a table with about 3million rows and I'm having trouble altering it to add 4 more columns. I'm using the MySQL Administrator and I've left it more than 24hours and its still not finished. I was going to try using a login to the console

RE: adding columns to a large table

2006-09-25 Thread Mugunthan SIFY
: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:35 PM To: Helen M Hudson; MySQL List Subject: Re: adding columns to a large table At 12:53 PM 9/25/2006, Helen M Hudson wrote: I have a table with about 3million rows and I'm having trouble altering it to add 4 more columns. I'm using the MySQL Administrator and I've

RE: adding columns to a large table

2006-09-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
already wait 24 hours, that must've loaded the server as well. Hope this helps. Regards, S.Mugunthan -Original Message- From: Ehrwin Mina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:35 PM To: Helen M Hudson; MySQL List Subject: Re: adding columns to a large

Re: adding columns to a large table

2006-09-25 Thread praj
There must be some thing went wrong with your settings in my.cnf file.For an 3 million records 24 hrs is bad :( |myisam_sort_buffer_size value in my.cnf ? Also you can apporx check the status by doing file size check on the table in database dir and the temoprory table created in the data

Re: adding columns to a large table

2006-09-25 Thread Helen M Hudson
Hudson Cc: MySQL List Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: Re: adding columns to a large table There must be some thing went wrong with your settings in my.cnf file.For an 3 million records 24 hrs is bad :( myisam_sort_buffer_size value in my.cnf ? Also you can apporx

adding columns to a large table

2006-09-24 Thread Helen M Hudson
I have a table with about 3million rows and I'm having trouble altering it to add 4 more columns. I'm using the MySQL Administrator and I've left it more than 24hours and its still not finished. I was going to try using a login to the console next, but is there a better way? Any advice much