Adminer Allowed memory size exhausted on database import

[ben.turner]

Hey @theleadagency , welcome to the forums!

We have a feature request to make it easier to allow increasing the memory for Adminer. Take a look and vote on it so it get prioritized:

Allow Users to Raise the Memory Upload Limit for Adminer

Currently, the Memory Limit for Adminer is hard-coded at 256 MB which means if you’re importing a large database you might get an error like these: A note that this is not related to the PHP Memory value set in php.ini which you can edit to a larger value. Steps for this are included at the bottom of our Troubleshooting Performance Issues help article here. The workaround for the Adminer error is to manually import the database file as mentioned in our Manually Importing a Local Site guide.…

That linked forum topic also has a workaround for getting the large DB into a Local site.