Hello, I have a database that is growing at a rate of 4-5 MB per day (that number is getting larger as well). Not too bad but I'm trying to clean up the tables to minimize the amount of space they take up.
I have one particular table that has 2 columns: rolID int(10) unsigned repID int(10) unsigned Both are foreign keys to other tables. A "show table status" shows that this table has a Data_length=1081344 bytes. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html shows that integers take up 4 bytes of space. There are currently 10472 rows in the table. 10472 x 4 x 2 = 83776 What am I calculating wrong? Why is the Data_length value so much larger? Thanks.
