title: Import Dump to Amazon RDS
body: <p>i am running an Amazon RDS instance, which already contains the database schema. Using mysqldump and following this guide [1], i am able to remote import the dump, which contains INSERT statements.</p>
  
  <p>The SQL file is only 4MB large and contains around 30.000 statements. Despite this small size,  the import takes 40 minutes to complete. Is it possible to speed this up? I am not sure if mysqlimport is valuable with such a small file. I tried to deactivate auto commit but no improvement was noticeable.</p>
  
  <p>I already know, that i can not ssh to the instance or move the file to the local RDS filesystem.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you,
  Sebastian</p>
  
  <p>[1] <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/2933" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/articles/2933</a> </p>