Be careful deleting with limit. If you're replicating, you're not guaranteed the same
order of those you've deleted.
Perhaps a better way to delete in smaller chunks is to increase the id value:
DELETE FROM my_big_table WHERE id> 5000;
DELETE FROM my_big_table WHERE id> 4000;
etc
-- Derek
On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Andy Wallace wrote:
> I've had some luck in the past under similar restrictions deleting in
> chunks:
>
> delete from my_big_table where id > 2474 limit 1000
>
> But really, the best way is to buy some more disk space and use the
> new table method
>
> On 11/4/11 1:44 AM, Adarsh Sharma wrote:
>> Thanks Anand,
>>
>>
>> Ananda Kumar wrote:
>>> Why dont you create a new table where id < 2474, rename the original table
> to "_old" and the new table to actual table name.
>> I need to delete rows from 5 tables each > 50 GB , & I don't have
> sufficient space to store extra data.
>> My application loads 2 GB data daily in my databases.
>>>
>>> or
>>> You need to write a stored proc to loop through rows and delete, which will
> be faster.
>>
>> Can U provide me a simple example of stored proc
>>>
>>> Doing just a simple "delete" statement, for deleting huge data will take
> ages.
>>
>> Even the Create Index command on ID takes hours too complete.
>>
>> I think there is no easiest way to delete that rows from mysql tables.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> regards
>>> anandkl
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sharma@stripped
> <mailto:adarsh.sharma@stripped>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Today I need to delete some records in > 70 GB tables.
>>> I have 4 tables in mysql database.
>>>
>>> my delete command is :-
>>>
>>> delete from metadata where id>2474;
>>>
>>> but it takes hours to complete.
>>>
>>> One of my table structure is as :-
>>>
>>> CREATE TABLE `metadata` (
>>> `meta_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
>>> `id` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
>>> `url` varchar(800) DEFAULT NULL,
>>> `meta_field` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL,
>>> `meta_value` varchar(2000) DEFAULT NULL,
>>> `dt_stamp` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
>>> PRIMARY KEY (`meta_id`)
>>> ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=388780373 ;
>>>
>>>
>>> Please let me know any quickest way to do this.
>>> I tried to create indexes in these tables on id, but this too
>>> takes time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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>>
>>
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