500 ISE error when uploading database in phpMyAdmin compressed in zip format

Symptoms

When importing a sql dump compressed in the zip format into phpMyAdmin, you find that after some time the import times out and a HTTP 500 Internal server error occurs. 

Description

We've opened an internal case for our development team to investigate this further. For reference, the case number is CPANEL-50517. Follow this article to receive an email notification when a solution is published in the product. 

Workaround

Decompressing the sql dump, or using the gzip compression format will allow the database to be imported via phpMyAdmin. Alternatively, the database can be imported from the command line using the method here:

 How to import or restore a database via SSH