Hi Chris, For MyISAM/BDB tables use OPTIMIZE TABLE <your table name>; For InnoDB tables try ALTER TABLE <your table name> TYPE=InnoDB;
Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 148 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 - Work +61 417 268 665 - Mobile +61 8 8408 4259 - Fax -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 9:19 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Compressing after Deletion I have looked in the documentation and either I am not looking for the right thing or have simply overlooked it. But my question is this, I have a database with 35 Million records, and I need to delete about 25 million of those. After deletion I would think that I would need to compress, shrink, or otherwise optimize the database. How is that done? do I need to do it? What commands should I be looking up in the docs? Any help is greatly appreciated. Chris Hood -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]