Well, it depends on how you need to merge the data.
If you have no problems with denying access to the live site for a short
period of time, and losing the data in the live site you can do:
--
mysqldump --opt -Q -u youruser -p yourdevdatabasename > yourdb.sql
mysql -u youruser -p
drop database yourlivedatabase;
create database yourlivedatabase;
use yourlivedatabase;
source yourdb.sql;
--
If you must maintain the site "live", then you'll need to use something
along the lines of mysqldiff (http://www.mysqldiff.org/) to compare
changes between development and live, issue a query to bring live
up-to-date regarding structure, then use something like:
mysqldump --opt -u youruser -p -t yourdevdatabasename > yourdb.sql
(the -t suppresses the table creation information)
You will still have to devise a way of keeping any duplicate records in
live/devel.
These ideas should at least give you a starting point to consider.
B.
Richard Heesbeen wrote:
> He All,
>
> A newbie question for you all, what is the best way to get my development database to
> the live server (it has a few million records)?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.
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