RE: Storage Requirements Not Equal to Actual Disk Space Used...

2002-12-19 Thread Dana Diederich
ber 19, 2002 8:44 AM > To: Andrew Kuebler > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Storage Requirements Not Equal to Actual Disk Space > Used... > > mysql needs a few more bytes per record for its internal use. > Since you use a VARCHAR, you have dynamic length records

Re: Storage Requirements Not Equal to Actual Disk Space Used...

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Bueno
mysql needs a few more bytes per record for its internal use. Since you use a VARCHAR, you have dynamic length records; this is described in the manual: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Dynamic_format.html Regards, Joseph Bueno Andrew Kuebler wrote: > I have a table with 17,168,035 records. I have the

Re: Storage Requirements Not Equal to Actual Disk Space Used...

2002-12-19 Thread Wico de Leeuw
Did you optimze the table first? warning optimize could take long (and i think the table is locked while doing it) Gr, Wico At 08:26 19-12-02 -0500, Andrew Kuebler wrote: I have a table with 17,168,035 records. I have the following column types and I read about the following storage requiremen