Importing larger sql files into MySQL

Question

I have a 400MB large sql backup file. I\'m trying to import that file into MySQL database using WAMP->import, but the import was unsuccessful due to many reasons such as upl

Answer 1

I believe the easiest way is to upload the file using MYSQL command line.

using the command from the terminal to access MySQL command line and run source

    mysql --host=hostname -uuser -ppassword
    source filename.sql 

or directly from the terminal

   mysql --host=hostname -uuser -ppassword < filename.sql

at the prompt

I found this link How to upload big sql dump files (memory, HTTP or timeout problems) in MYSQL. it give the outline of what to do to upload a large SQL. It helped me when I got face with a client 196mb sql dump. Something the PHPMySql couldn't handle.