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Configure MySQL to create an innodb file per table to prevent ibdata1 growing indefinitely #388
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3456159/how-to-shrink-purge-ibdata1-file-in-m
ysql
"But you can configure MySQL so that each table, including its indexes, is
stored as a separate file. In that way ibdata1 will not grow as large.
According to Bill Karwin's comment this is enabled by default as of version 5.6
of MySQL.
It was a while ago I did this. However, to setup your server to use separate
files for each table you need to change my.cnf in order to enable this:"
[mysqld]
innodb_file_per_table
Original issue reported on code.google.com by doug.bu...@gmail.com
on 5 Sep 2013 at 6:31