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Originally Posted by Zachery
Any alter is going to lock the table, that bit is unavoidable. however, how long it stays locked for is another point all together. 6 hours for 1.5 million rows seems excessive.
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It was more than 6 hours and you wouldn't be able to do anything other than wait for the task to completely finish. Have you tried DB's plugin, any of them on big sites? try it and see! you must have thousands of members. The table will lock to process each batch of changes and you will wait that much, even on a powerful dedicated server with 12 cores and 3.5 ghz speed and using SSD drives