MySQL OPTIMIZE all tables?

Question

MySQL has an OPTIMIZE TABLE command which can be used to reclaim unused space in a MySQL install. Is there a way (built-in command or common stored procedure) to run this o

Answer 1

If you want to analyze, repair and optimize all tables in all databases in your MySQL server, you can do this in one go from the command line. You will need root to do that though.

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

Once you run that, you will be prompted to enter your MySQL root password. After that, it will start and you will see results as it's happening.

Example output:

yourdbname1.yourdbtable1       OK
yourdbname2.yourdbtable2       Table is already up to date
yourdbname3.yourdbtable3
note     : Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead
status   : OK

etc..
etc...

Repairing tables
yourdbname10.yourdbtable10
warning  : Number of rows changed from 121378 to 81562
status   : OK

If you don't know the root password and are using WHM, you can change it from within WHM by going to: Home > SQL Services > MySQL Root Password