[geeks] MySQL question

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:48:03PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> If I've got a system running Solaris/SPARC and MySQL, and I want to replace
> that system with Solaris/x86, do I have to worry about endian-ness issues
> with the database files?
> 
> 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.


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