Optimizing and Repairing MySQL Databases

Posted by Sheldon Finlay on August 11, 2009

It’s a good idea to optimize and repair your MySQL databases on a regular basis, especially of the tables in your database undergo a lot of writes and deletes. Fortunately, it’s fairly easy to perform:

mysqlcheck -r your_database 

And when that is complete you can optimize it like so:

mysqlcheck -o your_database