import mysql database exported with phpmyadmin into local lamp stack

Question

I exported mydb.sql from phpMyAdmin. It is about 0.9GB in size.

I copied mydb.sql onto an external hard drive, plugged that drive into another computer on which I just i

Answer 1

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 
'<br /><b>Fatal error</b>:  Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in <b' at line 83

This line should not be in your mydb.sql. This question has been tagged phpmyadmin so it's easy to guess that the data was exported with it but the script was terminated when it reached 300 seconds which is the max allowed on your server.

You have two options:

1) change your php.ini to increase the max execution time

2) dump the database using mysqldump