Hi!

>On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:19, Heikki Tuuri wrote:
>> The way to defragment InnoDB tables, or tables in any database, is from time
>> to time to dump and reimport them. That can give a significant performance
>> boost.
>> 
>
>That is actually not entirely true.  For MyISAM tables, one simply needs
>to run "OPTIMIZE TABLE table_name" from time to time.  I think the end
>result is the same, but it's atomic.
>
>Does OPTIMIZE TABLE work for InnoDB?

Sorry, no. ALTER TABLE can be used to rebuild the table, but essentially it
is equivalent to a dump and reimport.

>Steve

Regards,

Heikki
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