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Successfully seeding 10.5 million records into MySQL with Laravel requires careful memory management and batch processing. Testing on both a local MacBook Pro and a $6 Digital Ocean server showed the task is feasible, though the process is slower on cheaper cloud servers. Despite the heavy load, MySQL's performance in querying large datasets remains efficient.

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