Try do that whit phpmyadmin.
Regards,
Luis Morales
Bastien Koert wrote:
> if the archive tables structures are identical and no processing needs
> to be done, why not use a 'select into table where ' and use the ids
> of the records to choose the ones that move?
>
> Bastien
>
>> From: Jeffrey <jeffreyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Moving data from one MySQL table to another
>> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:19:48 +0200
>>
>> I'm working on a web application and one of the things I am doing is
>> creating an archiving function that would move older data to archive
>> tables in order to minimise the amount of data in the active tables.
>> This so that the data that is being used more frequently can be
>> accessed faster by the users.
>>
>> My approach in building the archive function is:
>>
>> 1) SELECT query on the data
>> 2) mysql_fetch_array to put the data into an array
>> 3) INSERT subqueries to put the data into the archive tables.
>>
>> My concern is that in some cases, hundreds of rows of data would need
>> to be moved - which could lead to awfully big arrays. However, the
>> archiving function is likely to be used infrequently - not more than
>> 1 or 2 times per week.
>>
>> This leads to two questions:
>>
>> 1) Could such a big array cause performance problems or worse?
>> 2) Is there a better way?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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