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Server Maintenance
MySQL Service Center provides you with a possibility of using four operations for MySQL server maintenance. The maintenance features performs the following operations with MySQL tables:
- Analyzing tables
Analyses and stores the key distribution for the table(s). During the analysis, the table is locked with a read lock. This works for MyISAM and BDB tables.
- Checking tables
Checks the table(s) for errors. For MyISAM tables the key statistics are updated. This works only for MyISAM and InnoDB tables.
- Repairing tables
Repairs the corrupted table(s). This works only for MyISAM tables.
- Optimizing tables
Reclaims the unused space and defragments the datafile for the table(s) with variable-length rows. This works for MyISAM and BDB tables.