RE: optimize DB - bad experience

2012-06-19 Thread Rick James
OPTIMIZE TABLE is almost never needed. I certainly don't blast away at all tables. > -Original Message- > From: Igor Shevtsov [mailto:nixofort...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:04 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: optimize DB - bad experience

optimize DB - bad experience

2012-06-19 Thread Igor Shevtsov
Hi Guys, Just curious if any of you had a bad experience running optimize table procedure. ERRORS, corrupted databases or tables caused by this. We have MySQL 5.1.46 server. I feel to run optimize of the full DB is quite safe Example: shell> mysqlcheck -o --skip-write-binlog database What's your