Re: space usage

2006-07-07 Thread Barry
Martin Jespersen schrieb: Does anyone havea clue of how mysql optimizes empty fields and how query speed is affected? Why don't you read the part in the mysql documentation about the opimization? what will be better for queryspeed/size: adding them with NULL using NULL as default or with

space usage

2006-07-05 Thread Martin Jespersen
Does anyone havea clue of how mysql optimizes empty fields and how query speed is affected? i have a db with around 3 million rows where i need to add 2 new fields - one smallint and one varchar(10) for alot of the rows they will be empty, but because of query speed i opt to put them ion

Estimating disk-space usage using LENGTH(BLOB)

2004-12-16 Thread Mike Moran
I'm currently trying to write a short SQL expression that will give me a rough estimate of the disk-space usage of a particular bunch of rows in a table. For table 'example': CREATE TABLE `example` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `blah` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', `blah2

How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I have a configuration with 1 master and 2 slaves; all servers are correctly running mysql-max-4.0.20. All is fine, but I'm observing a strange usage of logs. On one of the slaves I have: mysql show slave status \G *** 1. row ***

Re: How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread Alex Greg
Nico Sabbi wrote: [...] There are 3 GB of logs that no one needs anymore. Since the master knows that all the slaves are correctly aligned up to a certain MASTER_LOG_POS, can't it automatically remove the logs up to that position? The problem here is that MySQL masters aren't necessarily aware of

Re: How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
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Re: How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread kernel
Nico Sabbi wrote: Hi, I have a configuration with 1 master and 2 slaves; all servers are correctly running mysql-max-4.0.20. All is fine, but I'm observing a strange usage of logs. On one of the slaves I have: mysql show slave status \G *** 1. row

InnoDB vs myISAM disk space usage

2002-11-27 Thread tommaso . nolli
Hello all, I'm using mySQL for many databases, now I want to test innoDB so I have created another DB (on the same machine) and I have populated it with the same data of the first DB (via: insert into table_name select * from db1.table_name); I have this tables: tableA:   80.000 recs tableB,

Re: InnoDB vs myISAM disk space usage

2002-11-27 Thread Owen Medd
Just to contribute our anecdotal experience, we also found a 2x increase in space required when we converted our MyISAM tables over to InnoDB. While it was surprising, it wasn't unexpected. We just had to go buy another 60GB of disk space (luckily we had planned for this). :) Owen On Wed,

Re: InnoDB vs myISAM disk space usage

2002-11-27 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:26:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows the reason of this disk usage of innoDB (it's 2 time bigger than myISAM) InnoDB has larger per-record overhead (row headers and such). -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! [EMAIL