Good Afternoon and thank you in advance for any help that you may be able to provide. QUESTION 1 : How do you reclaiming ibdata space? We have 3 databases that together use several ibdata files (ie each database does not have its own ibdata file) . We would like to drop 2 databases and reclaim the ibdata space that the 2 databases took up. What is the best way to do this? QUESTION 2 : Can you have multiple MySQL Instances that contain one database and a seperate ibdata spaces? Is this the best way to create seperate ibdata files for each database? What would you recommend? QUESTION 3: How can you defrag a database instead of a table? We have found that you can defrag a table: "From MySQL Manual: The way to do the defragmenting is to perform a 'null' alter table operation ALTER TABLE tablename TYPE=InnoDB." We would like to do this for the complete database. Thanks again for any help. Respectfully, Mike
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