From: Igor Shevtsov Date: June 19 2012 9:04pm Subject: optimize DB - bad experience List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/227703 Message-Id: <4FE0E940.7070606@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Guys, Just curious if any of you had a bad experience running optimize table procedure. ERRORS, corrupted databases or tables caused by this. We have MySQL 5.1.46 server. I feel to run optimize of the full DB is quite safe Example: shell> mysqlcheck -o --skip-write-binlog database What's your stories on this one? Many thanks, Igor