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How to Recover an InnoDB table whose files were moved around

So I have a test db server that was setup on a replication stream. Over the name an optimize came through that quickly filled up the space on the slaves datadir. Mysql dutifully was just waiting for ...
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Can I specify a different disk for a specific MySQL table?

I use my home machine as my personal database for my hobby analytics project. This machine has an SSD for the main drive where MySQL stores its data. It also has a secondary hard drive that is ...
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Measure the size of a PostgreSQL table row

I have a PostgreSQL table. select * is very slow whereas select id is nice and quick. I think it may be that the size of the row is very large and it's taking a while to transport, or it may be some ...
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Drop user did not reduce size of tablespace file

I have a development environment in which I frequently copy a certain schema. When I'm done with the copy, I will use OracleEM to drop that user/schema. My problem is that this does not seem to ...
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Why might a table's data space take up 4x the size of the raw data?

I have a table with 490 M rows and 55 GB of table space, so about 167 bytes per row. The table has three columns: a VARCHAR(100), a DATETIME2(0), and a SMALLINT. The average length of the text in ...
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How do I shrink the innodb file ibdata1 without dumping all databases?

InnoDB stores all tables in one big file ibdata1. After dropping a big table, the file is keeping its size no matter how big the table was. How can I shrink that file without having to dump and ...