Hello,
I have a database that is growing at a rate of 4-5 MB per day (that number is getting
larger as well). Not too bad but I'm trying to clean up the tables to minimize the
amount of space they take up.
I have one particular table that has 2 columns:
rolID int(10) unsigned
repID int(10) unsigned
Both are foreign keys to other tables.
A "show table status" shows that this table has a Data_length=1081344 bytes.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html shows that integers take
up 4 bytes of space.
There are currently 10472 rows in the table.
10472 x 4 x 2 = 83776
What am I calculating wrong? Why is the Data_length value so much larger?
Thanks.
