General Tablespaces in MySQL 5.7 – Details and Tips

General Tablespaces in MySQL 5.7 – Details and Tips

InnoDB in MySQL 5.7 introduced for the first time the ability to create a general tablespace and assign multiple tables to it.  These tablespaces can be assigned anywhere on the system.  They can even be assigned a smaller block size so that they can contain compressed tables that use that size as their key_block_size.…

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