Hi List, This is a request for your experiences with mysqldump - or more specifically loading the dump file. I have a newly developed app that has some 30+ tables, most with few records at this time. However, it does contain a streets table with some 43K records. I regularly dump the database using >mysqldump -u rkampen -p databasename >databasenamedatetime.sql and load it onto other machines via mysql -u rkampen -p -D databasename <databasenamedatetime.sql This has always served me well on different versions of CentOS and MySql. The file is over 3,000,000 characters in just over 1,000 lines (2.7M). Now I am needing to load this database file onto a debian host running Plesk 9.5.4 via their system admin and it is unreliable - after four attempts we have all except the streets table loaded - but this table will not load. Thus my questions are 1. Anyone ever have this kind of problem - i.e. failure to load a mysqldump file? 2. Are there alternative methods or formats I could use? I do not want to code something specific to dump this one record at a time and then load it one record at a time......:-( TIA for your insights Rob