Why not ask Config.pm for the credentials?

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Rory <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rudolf,
> You're welcome. I kept thinking of extra bits of information that I felt
> were useful and after a while it turned out the message was huge and needed
> a summary! I hope some of it was useful.
>
> Michiel,
> The script will iterate through all the tables in each database of the
> mysql server. It could easily be modified to ask for a database name and
> only optimize for that database.
> I'm sure you're right about the tables generally not needing to be
> optimized, I'm only good for pretty basic DBA tasks and the OPTIMIZE TABLE
> task seems like a good idea. I don't know too much about the database
> activity other than the obvious tables which will continue to grow.
> I wasn't aware of the performance issue with large databases. It might be
> best to hardcode the username and password into the script and run it as an
> out of hours cron job.
> I also came across the following when reading about the OPTIMIZE TABLE
> command which may, or may not, be useful.
>
> #####################
> For InnoDB tables, OPTIMIZE 
> TABLE<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/optimize-table.html>is mapped to 
> ALTER
> TABLE <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/alter-table.html>, which
> rebuilds the table to update index statistics and free unused space in the
> clustered index. This is displayed in the output of OPTIMIZE 
> TABLE<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/optimize-table.html>when you run 
> it on an
> InnoDB table, as shown here:
>
> mysql> OPTIMIZE TABLE foo;
> +----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Table    | Op       | Msg_type | Msg_text                                   
>                        |
> +----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | test.foo | optimize | note     | Table does not support optimize, doing 
> recreate + analyze instead |
> | test.foo | optimize | status   | OK                                         
>                        |
> +----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>  You can make OPTIMIZE 
> TABLE<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/optimize-table.html>work on 
> other storage engines by starting
> *mysqld* <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysqld.html> with the
> --skip-new or 
> --safe-mode<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_safe-mode>option.
>  In this case, OPTIMIZE
> TABLE <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/optimize-table.html> is just
> mapped to ALTER TABLE<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/alter-table.html>
> .
> #####################
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/optimize-table.html
>
> Rory
>
>
>
> On 30 August 2011 15:17, Michiel Beijen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rory, but all your script does is OPTIMIZE TABLE for all OTRS tables,
>> right?
>>
>> Actually, typically the only tables that need OPTIMIZEing are the
>> sessions table and maybe the web_upload_cache tables; but you can also
>> use the FS backends for session and web upload cache; then you don't
>> have this issue, right? Or, in other words, most sites never optimize
>> and don't have (real) issues.
>>
>> Also a fair word of warning, if you have InnoDB as the storage backend
>> on MySQL; if you have deleted a large number of tickets (which would
>> be the main reason for OPTIMIZEing) the statement creates a lock on
>> the database and it can take a long time to complete; I've seen +1
>> hour with total database sizes of 20-30 GB when I deleted half the
>> number of tickets, on moderate hardware. So while there can be reasons
>> to do an OPTIMIZE it's generally not so much needed, and IF you need
>> it, for example when you deleted lots of tickets; it can lock up your
>> database so you really want to do this inside a maintenance window.
>>
>> There's also this script that you could use (at your own risk) if you
>> need to do it on-line:
>> http://www.vosoft.nl/perl/reduce_table.pl.txt
>>
>> --
>> Mike
>>
>>
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