Hi!

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Alex Dean <alex@crackpot.org> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
>
> > good point. Its just a series of INSERTs (8000 or so), but the table
> > has a fulltext index, so its pretty slow (10 records/sec).
> > It sounds like I should split up the batch script, then load a few,
> > pause, load a few, pause, etc.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Eric
>
> Look at 'alter table disable/enable keys'
>  you tell the server not to update any indexes while you're doing your
> bulk load.
>  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html
>
> Consider loading via tab-delimited rather than SQL.
>  Much much faster, but the data file must be on the mysql server's
> filesystem.
>  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html
>
> As others suggested, do inserts in batches and sleep.
>
> alex
>
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