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Ricky Sharma
Ricky Sharma

Reputation: 1919

Can't import database through phpmyadmin file size too large

I have been trying to import Database through phpMyAdmin. My database file is a.sql and it's size is 1.2 GB I am trying to import this on local and phpMyAdmin is saying:

You probably tried to upload too large file. Please refer to documentation for ways to workaround this limit.

Please help I really need this to work.

Upvotes: 90

Views: 382825

Answers (14)

user926721
user926721

Reputation:

Use command line:

mysql.exe -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASENAME < MYDATABASE.sql

where MYDATABASE.sql is your SQL file.

Upvotes: 22

Hamid
Hamid

Reputation: 1563

For ubuntu 14.04 use this:

  1. Open php.ini using gedit or nano:

    sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

  2. Find upload_max_size then replace this single line with these lines:

    max_execution_time = 259200
max_input_time = 259200
memory_limit = 1000M
upload_max_filesize = 750M
post_max_size = 750M

  3. Save php.ini and close editor

  4. Restart apache2:

    sudo service apache2 restart

  5. Now open localhost://phpmyadmin/ in browser and upload your database.sql

Upvotes: 6

Tomislav Darlic
Tomislav Darlic

Reputation: 92

Just to put this here as I just updated my databases in xampp after several tries and reading the answers here. I used the Xampp 7.4 I tried to edit the ExecTimeLimit variable in config.default.php but still kept timing out and finally when I looked at the code I realized that if you put it to 0 it ill still default to 300. So you need to put it to actual high value to have a longer timeout.

 /**
 * @param array<int|string, mixed> $settings
 *
 * @psalm-return 0|positive-int
 */
private function setExecTimeLimit(array $settings): int
{
    if (! isset($settings['ExecTimeLimit'])) {
        return 300;
    }

    $execTimeLimit = (int) $settings['ExecTimeLimit'];

    return $execTimeLimit >= 0 ? $execTimeLimit : 300;
}

Upvotes: 0

Mohmed Ashfaq
Mohmed Ashfaq

Reputation: 11

If you do not want to change the settings or play with command line. There is option to compress the file and upload in phpMyAdmin. It should bring down the size considerably.

Upvotes: 0

Riad Hossain
Riad Hossain

Reputation: 501

If you are using MySQL in Xampp then do the steps below.

Find the following in XAMPP control panel>Apach-Config> PHP (php.ini) file

  • post_max_size = 8M

  • upload_max_filesize = 2M

  • max_execution_time = 30
  • ut_time = 60enter code here memory_limit = 8M

And change their sizes according to your need. I'm using these values

post_max_size = 30M
upload_max_filesize = 30M
max_execution_time = 4500
max_input_time = 4500
memory_limit = 850M

Upvotes: 7

Mitesh vaghela
Mitesh vaghela

Reputation: 527

to import big database into phpmyadmin there are two ways 1 increase file execution size from php.ini 2 use command line to import big database.

Upvotes: 1

himansu
himansu

Reputation: 1917

For Upload large size data in using phpmyadmin Do following steps.

  1. Open php.ini file from C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.4.4\bin Update following lines 
    max_execution_time = 259200
max_input_time = 259200
memory_limit = 1000M
upload_max_filesize = 750M
post_max_size = 750M
    than after restart wamp server or restart all services Now Upload data using import function in phymyadmin. Apply second step if till not upload data.
  2. open config.default.php file in c:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.0.4\libraries (Open this file accoring to phpmyadmin version)
    Find $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 300;Replace to $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0;
    Now you can upload data.

You can also upload large size database using MySQL Console as below.

  1. Click on WampServer Icon -> MySQL -> MySQL Consol
  2. Enter your database password like root in popup
  3. Select database name for insert data by writing command USE DATABASENAME
  4. Then load source sql file as SOURCE C:\FOLDER\database.sql
  5. Press enter for insert data.

Note: You can't load a compressed database file e.g. database.sql.zip or database.sql.gz, you have to extract it first. Otherwise the console will just crash.

Upvotes: 108

Anuja
Anuja

Reputation: 111

  1. Set the below values in php.ini file (C:\xampp\php\)

    • max_execution_time = 0
    • max_input_time=259200
    • memory_limit = 1000M
    • upload_max_filesize = 750M
    • post_max_size = 750M

  2. Open config.default file(C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\libraries\config.default) and set the value as below:

    • $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0;

  3. Then open the config.inc file(C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\config.inc). and paste below line:

    • $cfg['UploadDir'] = 'upload';

  4. Go to phpMyAdmin(C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin) folder and create folder called upload and paste your database to newly created upload folder (don't need to zip)

  5. Lastly, go to phpMyAdmin and upload your db (Please select your database in drop-down)

upload image

  1. That's all baby ! :)

*It takes lot of time.In my db(266mb) takes 50min to upload. So be patient ! *

Upvotes: 10

Cindy Cullen
Cindy Cullen

Reputation: 11

You can also try compressing (zipping) the file. It sometimes works for me if I can't get to php.ini for phpmyadmin. If zipping reduces the file size below the maximum file size, it just might work!

Upvotes: 1

Abdulla Nilam
Abdulla Nilam

Reputation: 38584

You no need to edit php.ini or any thing. I suggest best thing as Just use MySQL WorkBench.

JUST FOLLOW THE STEPS.

Install MySQL WorkBench 6.0

And In "Navigation panel"(Left side) there is option call 'Data import' under "MANAGEMENT". Click that and [follow steps below]

  1. click Import Self-Contained File and choose your SQL file
  2. Go to My Document and create folder call "dump"[simple].
  3. now you ready to upload file. Click IMPORT Button on down.

Upvotes: 1

Rishi Kulshreshtha
Rishi Kulshreshtha

Reputation: 1878

Here is what I've done:

  1. Gone to my XAMPP installed directoy C:\xampp\php
  2. Open the "Configuration Settings" file named php.ini using your text editor, preferably you can also you Notepad for Windows machine.
  3. Somewhere nearby on line no 886, please update it to upload_max_filesize = 128M
  4. Similarly on line no 735 post_max_size = 128M
  5. On line no 442 max_execution_time = 300
  6. On line no 452 max_input_time = 60
  7. Restart your Apache from either XAMPP Control Panel or using CMD in Windows https://stackoverflow.com/a/6723485/969092

Done!

Upvotes: 39

user319198
user319198

Reputation:

Its due to PHP that has a file size restriction for uploads.

If you have terminal/shell access then the above answers @Kyotoweb will work.

one way to get it done is that you create an .htaccess/ini file file to change PHP settings to get the sql file uploaded through PHPmyAdmin.

php_value upload_max_filesize 120M //file size
php_value post_max_size 120M
php_value max_execution_time 200
php_value max_input_time 200

Note you should remove this file after upload.

Upvotes: 80

ninesided
ninesided

Reputation: 23263

Another option that nobody here has mentioned yet is to do a staggered load of the database using a tool like BigDump to work around the limit. It's a simple PHP script that loads a chunk of the database at a time before restarting itself and moving on the the next chunk.

Upvotes: 4

Konerak
Konerak

Reputation: 39763

You have three options:

  • Use another way to get the file on the server, and use a mysql client on the server
  • Use another client to connect to the server and load the data
  • Change your PHP settings to allow such huge files. Don't forget to increment the execution time as well.

Upvotes: 0

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