[geeks] MySQL question

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net>
> Date: 2004/05/20 Thu AM 12:15:04 GMT
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] MySQL question
> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:48:03PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

> > Or is it just a "best practice" to mysqldump, then recreate the databases
> > on the x86 side and import everything back in?
> 
> I would strongly advise a dump-and-reload.  Apart from anything else,
> doing it that way you optimize the database in the process.

Yes, absolutely - for performance, if nothing else.