title: Creating a very large MySQL Database from PHP Script
body: <p>Please bear with me on this question.</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking to create a relatively large MySQL database that I want to use to do some performance testing. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 by the way.</p>
  
  <p>I want to create about 6 tables, each with about 50 million records. Each table will have about 10 columns. The data would just be random data.</p>
  
  <p>However, I'm not sure how I can go about doing this. Do I use PHP and loop INSERT queries (bound to timeout)? Or if that is inefficient, is there a way I can do this via some command line utility or shell script?</p>
  
  <p>I'd really appreciate some guidance.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>