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Oct
04
2007
How to check and optimize MySQL tables in parallel
Posted by Baron Schwartz (xaprb) on Thu 04 Oct 2007 02:43 UTC
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I wanted to point out something that might not be obvious from the name: MySQL Parallel Dump can be used as a generic wrapper to discover tables and databases, and fork off worker processes to do something to them in parallel. That "something" can easily be invoking mysqlcheck -- or any other program. This makes it really easy for you to do multi-threaded whatever-you-need-to-do on MySQL tables. Here's how.