Ya, it will spike the server

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:34:14 +0000

Ya, it will spike the server load for a while, but I've never had it crash from large imports.

Big Dump segments the

netsperience — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:55:08 +0000

Big Dump segments the imports for you, to not hog too much SQL bandwidth or cause timeouts.

They do in fact recommend dumping the db from the command line

This db has about 200MB of SQL text. I found the SQL server choked on imports larger than about 15MB

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:28:09 +0000

For large imports, why not just copy the SQL file to the server and import it from the command line?

mysql --user=username --pass=password --host=dbserver database < /path/file.sql