I find myself converting more and more customers' databases to InnoDB plugin. In one case, it was a last resort: disk space was running out, and plugin's compression released 75% space; in another, a slow disk made for IO bottlenecks, and plugin's improvements & compression alleviated the problem; in yet another, I used the above [...]
I've encountered the same problem twice for different customers, so I guess it's worth a discussion. A common task for web applications is to find out the country/region of a user, based on her IP address, as can be detected in the HTTP request. Depending on the country of origin, the website can translate dates [...]
When working with InnoDB, you have two ways for managing the tablespace storage: Throw everything in one big file (optionally split). Have one file per table. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the two options, and will strive to convince that innodb_file_per_table is preferable. A single tablespace Having everything in one big file [...]