Re: data deleted in MySQL but table file (.MYD) remains same size

2004-11-09 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:53 -0800 11/9/04, Fredrick Bartlett wrote: Why not "TRUNCATE" table... If you want an empty table, yes. The goal below appears to be to retain the records after changing one of the columns after an empty string. - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 13:0

Re: data deleted in MySQL but table file (.MYD) remains same size

2004-11-09 Thread Fredrick Bartlett
Why not "TRUNCATE" table... - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gerald_clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Re: data deleted in MySQL but table file (.MYD) remains same size

2004-11-09 Thread Craig Cummings
That did the trick. Thanks for the advice. -Craig On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 13:06 -0600 11/9/04, gerald_clark wrote: > >Craig Cummings wrote: > > > >>Hi there, > >> > >>I have a table with three columns, two varchar(12) identifiers and a > >>longtext column with very long (som

Re: data deleted in MySQL but table file (.MYD) remains same size

2004-11-09 Thread Paul DuBois
At 13:06 -0600 11/9/04, gerald_clark wrote: Craig Cummings wrote: Hi there, I have a table with three columns, two varchar(12) identifiers and a longtext column with very long (some > 50 MB) strings. The size of the chromosomes.MYD table was about 2.8 GB. The table was used transiently and I no l

Re: data deleted in MySQL but table file (.MYD) remains same size

2004-11-09 Thread gerald_clark
Craig Cummings wrote: Hi there, I have a table with three columns, two varchar(12) identifiers and a longtext column with very long (some > 50 MB) strings. The size of the chromosomes.MYD table was about 2.8 GB. The table was used transiently and I no longer needed to store the strings, so in th