Chive as an alternative to phpMyAdmin

Most of the mysql-admins out there will know phpmyadmin as a very helpful and reliable database administration tool. It’s available in most linux distros, can easily be installed and is for sure a very nice tool. Today I stumbled upon an alternative mysql administration-tool driven by php called chive. From the project-website you can quickly [...]

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Timeouts problems with phpmyadmin when inserting from larger dumps

Today i tried to insert data to a mysql-database from a sql-dump with phpmyadmin. Although the dumpfile was not so big (1,8M) i got a timeout after about 30 secondes each time I tried it. This timeout is often by webhosters in their PHP installation.
The problem is that the customer (me in this case) is not able to increase this value :-( So what to do?
After googling a bit I found the solution: It’s called Bigdump! Wow!!! :-)

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