Configure MySQL to create an innodb file per table to prevent ibdata1 growing indefinitely

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"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

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Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2014 at 2:16

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