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It was convenient that MyISAM used to store each table in a corresponding file. InnoDB has made advancements in many aspects, but I wonder why InnoDB stores all databases in one file (ibdata1 by ...

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 re-...

I would like to understand these ibdata files as these play vital role in the crash recovery procedure. I could not find proper resources over the web for this.

MySQL 5.1.4x (Windows) | Innodb I recently purged data from a mySQL DB (a few hundred thousand rows) and I'm planning to use OPTIMIZE TABLE LOGTABLEFOO1,LOGTABLEFOO2,LOGTABLEFOO3; to reduce the ...

I have a weird problem which I cannot seem to fix. I'm more an web programmer than a Server/DB Admin, so I hope someone here can help me. The Situation I am working on a system which handles a lot ...

I Have installed a MySQL Cluster with InnoDB (innodb_file_per_table enabled subsequently), but since I switched to innodb_file_per_table, the file ibdata1 grows (2GB at month). Is My my.cnf file is ...

I got a memory issue while in linux. When i checked memory allocation by using df -h i found a path /dev/sda1 and it is used 100%. When i dig more i found that /var/lib/mysql file ate almost all ...

What is the best way to schedule automatic optimization of tables in a MySQL InnoDB database? Can I use events for example? I have recently had a big performance issue (when querying) with one of the ...

I just switched my Wordpress databases to use the InnoDB engine. When using MyISAM, I used to run Optimize and Repair table. However, with InnoDB, these don't work. I manually ran OPTIMIZE TABLE ...

I'm restoring a ~52GB dump to a MySQL database. The ibdata1 file has already exceeded the size of the dump file and the restore is still incomplete. Is there any way to estimate the final size of the ...

I am in a bit of an awkward situation right now. I have a database with a few large InnoDB tables, one of which is about 145 GiB. I have been running a lot of maintenance on this table in particular, ...

I am running MySql innodb with innodb_file_per_table. As a daily script, I would like to create a new partition for a set of tables, as well as delete yesterday's partitions. What command would need ...

I'm little newbie in configuring mysql and I need some advices. Few days ago I made little home server on Ubuntu Server 12.04 with samba, mysql 5.5, apache 2.2, PHP 5.4.6 etc. I'm using it to ...

I'm using InnoDB database with a single file configuration (in /var), so no innodb_file_per_table. In the MySql workbench, when I query for the databases used space, with this query SELECT ...

There is a SAN mounted 1TB partition for Mysql backups in our server with version 5.0.45-log. From two days, im seeing the log entries ERROR 1114 (HY000) at line 6308 in file & The table ...