Since I received no responses, maybe someone can take a moment to explain why this is such a stupid question.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Is it necessary to compress tables? > Does MySQL automatically handle deleted row cleanup, or is it necessary to > periodically do this manually for tables with a lot of deletions? If it's > manual, what are the SQL commands to do this? > > Also, what happens when changes are made to a field definition? From, say, int > to smallint, or tinyint to int, or varchar(255) to varchar(10)? Do temporary > tables get created and the data copied over, or does unused space end up in the > data files, to be collected later? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
