[TYPO3-dev] InnoDB vs MyISAM

Steffen Gebert steffen at steffen-gebert.de
Sun Feb 8 15:55:03 CET 2009


Stefano Kowalke wrote:
> what is with the behavior, that InnoDB tables get bigger and bigger? If i
> truncate the content the size was the same?

This is a quite normal behavior for databases. Databases usually do not shrink, so DBMSs don't reduce the size of their data files, but later use this unallocated space when new data is written.

Steffen





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