Importing large MySQL dump files

If you try to import a very large MySQL dump using phpMyAdmin but it fails due to a timeout, I encourage you to try this nifty PHP tool: BigDump.

Description:
Staggered import of large and very large MySQL Dumps (like phpMyAdmin 2.x dumps) even through the web-servers with hard runtime limit and those in safe mode. The script executes only a small part of the huge dump and restarts itself. The next session starts where the last was stopped.

Doing More With phpMyAdmin

In the article Doing More With phpMyAdmin (Part 1), by Harish Kamath, readers receive easy-to-follow instructions for installing phpMyAdmin on their environment.