[snip] I have a huge MySQL table, 2.1 million records, 200MB. Once a week I need to dump it in CSV format and zip the file. This is not on my server, and it's in production, so I don't want to risk testing different methods and possibly hanging up their server for a period of time, so I wanted to seek advice here first to find what's the best way to proceed. I can easily use PHP to query the table for the results I want and write a file line by line and then zip it, but I'm worried that might take too long and hang up the machine. The other way to go is some kind of sql dump command, which I guess would be faster, but not sure how much control I'd have over the exact format of the file. Any suggestions which way I should proceed? Not hanging up their server is my prime concern. [/snip] SELECT * INTO OUTFILE "/directory/myfile.csv" FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM table; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
