Recent content by zsiadat

Greetings, I am dumping and loading (ASCII) a rather large database which takes more than 8 hours to fully load. The sysadmin for the machine I was doing this on has configured RDP to throw me out after a certain amount of inactivity. My problem now is that I am not sure whether the load was...

I would boldly say there is no real difference - the real difference lies in the competence of the administrator in charge of the machine. I myself prefer Slackware or Debian, since they are the most lightweight and thus secure distributions out there, something you certainly cannot say about...

Cool. The dump & load worked out just fine. I have, however, been parallelizing the load in order to increase performance. Thank you for your help, it was very useful! /zsiadat

Hi, We're migrating a database from version 9 to 10 on one machine to another, and as of yet we have been utilizing ASCII dump and load to achieve this. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?) our database has grown rapidly in size, thus making this procedure extremely time consuming. This has...