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Repair and optimize all mysql tables from CLI

Here’s how to check, repair and optimize all your mysql tables in all databases on a server…

mysqlcheck -u root -p – -auto-repair –check –optimize –all-databases

Note: you do not have to have root to do this, simply replace -u root with -u yourusername

That’s it..

(Remember if you are using a tool like phpmyadmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.com) you can always log in, browse to the table, select operations and choose “repair”, “check”, “analyse” or “optimize table”)

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  • Sharky on Saturday, April 2, 2011

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