> [JS] I strongly suspect that MySQL, like any other random access, variable > record length scheme, would find it easier to manage the internal layout of > separate files. The rows would tend more to be of similar sizes, leading to > less obnoxious fragmentation, and the files themselves would be smaller.
Well, again -- it depends. Here's a good writeup: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2009/05/overwriting-is-much-faster-than_28.html There's a lot of different things to think about, like which filesystem you're using. InnoDB internally uses 16-kb pages so rows from different tables aren't really intermingled, by the way. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
