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
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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



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