Question

I have no permission to modify php.ini but use SSH, and in phpmyadmin, I could only input a file max 2M. But now I have a big size database, so can I use SSH input the big size mysql database without modify php.ini?

put c:/mydata.sql /etc/local/mydata.sql {where is the folder I should upload?}
mysql -u myname -p
mypassword:
mysql>use mydata;
mysql>...  { what is the insert code, it may be depand the fold where I update to the server }

If this method still have a limit with 2M max, How should I do?

Answer 1

import from file:

mysql --user=DB_USER --password DB_NAME < dump.sql

import from compressed file:

gunzip < dump.sql.gz | mysql --user=DB_USER --password DB_NAME

import from compressed file on another host (than ‘localhost’):

gunzip < dump.sql.gz | mysql --host=your.db.server.com --user=DB_USER --password DB_NAME

I wouldn’t specify the password on the command line, as it would get stored in bash history, just leave the --password-option without the actual password and mysql will prompt for it. If you don’t specify this option, mysql will try to login without using a password.

To your other question, on where to upload your SQL-files: you should know, if are doing anything on a server… alternatively just use the temp-dir as suggested above or create some backup-folder outside of your webroot.