InnoDB : Tablespace Space Management
A user defined table and its corresponding index data, in InnoDB, is stored in files that have an extension .ibd. There are two types of tablespaces, general (or shared) tablespace and file-per-table. For shared tablespaces, data from many different tables and their corresponding indexes may reside in a single .ibd file.…
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