Imagine that you have to move your WordPress blog to a new web host, but you have over 2000 blog entries stored in that blog. Because WordPress data is stored on a mySQL database, chances are, you have a huge database that is going to be difficult to transfer.

Thanks to something called the “Big Dump,” you can transfer large mySQL files without having to worry about server time outs. If you’re faced with this issue, get a step-by-step primer on how to transfer large mySQL databases. This will work for any type of website programming that is dependent on mySQL.

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