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I am using the MEMORY storage engine but MySQL still writes to my disk…Why?

I am using the MEMORY Engine for all tables associated with a particular MYSQL query because speed of access is paramount to my project. For some reason, I have noticed that a large amount of disk ...
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What are reasons *not* to use the MEMORY storage engine in MySQL?

I recently discovered that MySQL has a "memory" engine that I wasn't aware of (most of my database work is for hobby projects so I learn what I need as I go). It seems like this option should give me ...