[Paul M]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

Paul, no. You can pm Zachery for my server admin company if you like and see his reputation on WHT, I don't think you will argue your point with an expert.

Quite frankly you seem clueless on this, so let me spell it out for you again.

No mysql server, ever, should take 6 hours to run a table alter on a 1.5 million row table. Any that does is very badly broken or configured, and any "expert" who tells you otherwise is either lying through their teeth or has no idea what they are doing, and yes, I will very much argue the point.

I can run an alter on a 2.2 million row node table (Innodb as well, which takes longer) in about 30 minutes on my home PC, let alone a dedicated server (I did so yesterday, twice).

Originally Posted by katie hunter

Like I said try any of DB's plugin on with big sites that have million of threads, posts, and registered members and see how fast your will finish important the xml. You can share the result later if you like.

I have no intention of ever installing dbtech plugins on any site, for totally unrelated reasons.