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Posted by Julie on 11/25/05 15:45
That limit is great. I guess I can do the select query with the limit
command, this way that query will not be so huge at once.
Maybe jump about 5000 each time.
I am just reading and exporting the data to a text file.
Thanks so much for your help.
"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Julie wrote:
>> Thanks for your great response.
>> That makes sense. I tried to put some output in the loop that goes
>> through
>> each record, but it seems that the delay is before that, perhaps here:
>> // delay is with this command
>> $theresults=mysql_query( $sql )
>
> Yes, this takes time if you have a large amount of entries that you need
> to
> load, you should try to limit things as much as possible, so you get as
> few
> results as possible, as a high amount results consumes time and memory and
> http transports has a default timeout time of 180s and in php.ini there is
> setting for how long a php script can run, how long time it's allowed to
> collect data and how much memory it's allowed to use.
>
> ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
> max_execution_time = 30
>
> ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
> max_input_time = 60
>
> ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)
> memory_limit = 8M
>
>
>> //then it is ok here and processes loop quickly
>> while( $row = mysql_fetch_object( $theresults ) )
>
> At this point you have got all the data.
>
>
>> I think it is because it is loading in over 80000 records from mysql
>> database in this query?
>> Is there a command or other method I can use that will not load the
>> whole
>> dataset at once, but only one record at a time? Please assist
>
> As I don't know what you want to do, so it's difficult to give you a good
> hint, but you can use LIMIT in your query and you get a limited amount of
> rows, and you can use it to get row in the middle of the list.
>
> # Get max the 10 first lines
> SELECT * FROM mytable LIMIT 10
>
> # Get the 10th to 20th line (first entry is number 0)
> SELECT * FROM mytable LIMIT 9,10
>
> As you have su many rows in your database, you never want to see all of
> them
> at once, which makes that you should never do a
>
> SELECT * FROM mytable;
>
> and let the database do as much of the data manipulation and not load
> values
> to the php and modify something and then store it back.
>
>
> //Aho
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