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Originally Posted by katie hunter
I am not expert with servers that is why we have a server admin. The changes had to run and be applied to each member we have on our forum, so think about altering fields/rows or whatever you call it for 1.5+ million member and see how fast you can complete this task and without getting your tables locked.
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Table alters have to lock the table, thats pretty obvious I would have thought.
If your mysql server is taking 6 hours to alter a 1.5 million records User table, then its badly broken.