Automated Table Optimizations

[Benton, Kevin]

I just learned that doing either CHECK TABLE or ANALYZE TABLE can do a lot for us in optimizing disk space utilization as well as indexing of tables in MySQL.  This can improve performance of the back-end in tables that could potentially suffer from fragmenting (usually due to deletes followed by subsequent adds).  I think it'd be a good idea to recommend that users implement a cron job that does these operations on a weekly-monthly basis in an optimization section of the manual.  I also think it'd be good to document (if we don't already) how to set up MySQL replication in a similar section.  What do others think about this?

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Kevin Benton
Perl/Bugzilla Developer/Administrator, Perforce SCM Administrator
AMD - ECSD Software Validation and Tools
 
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