How to Prevent Connection Timeouts for Large MySQL Imports

Question

During development, how our local WAMP servers get up-to-date data from the test server is that a dump of the database is made and we upload that dump using the source comma

Answer 1

This solution worked for me:

max_allowed_packet  <-- --> upped size to 8M
read_buffer_size  <-- -->  upped from 256 to 512

Using Xampp control panel on localhost. After making the changes to the my.ini file in MySQL config, don’t forget to quit Xampp (or Wamp) and restart it for changes to take effect.

(Four days of head-banging and I finally got it fixed!)

Symptoms were on Import: #2006 MySql server went away. However, only 10 table rows were being imported out of 87 table rows.