What is the best way to reduce the size of ibdata in mysql?
The busiest file in the InnoDB infrastructure is /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 This file normally houses many classes of information (when innodb_file_per_table is 0) Table Data Table Indexes MVCC (Multiversioning Concurrency Control) Data Rollbacks Segments Undo Tablespace Table Metadata Many people create multiple ibdata files hoping for better diskspace management and performance. It does not help. Unfortunately, OPTIMIZE TABLE against … Read more