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InnoDB 1.1 for MySQL 5.5 User’s Guide :: 5 How InnoDB Stores Variable-Length Columns

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1 Introduction to InnoDB 1.1
2 Fast Index Creation in the InnoDB Storage Engine
3 InnoDB Data Compression
4 InnoDB File-Format Management
5 How InnoDB Stores Variable-Length Columns
6 InnoDB INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables
7 InnoDB Performance and Scalability Enhancements
8 Changes for Flexibility, Ease of Use and Reliability
9 Installing the InnoDB Storage Engine
10 Upgrading the InnoDB Storage Engine
11 Downgrading the InnoDB Storage Engine
12 InnoDB Storage Engine Change History
A Third-Party Software
B List of Parameters Changed in InnoDB 1.1 and InnoDB Plugin 1.0
C InnoDB Glossary
Index

Chapter 5. How InnoDB Stores Variable-Length Columns

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5.1. Overview of InnoDB Row Storage
5.2. Specifying the Row Format for a Table
5.3. Barracuda File Format: DYNAMIC and COMPRESSED Row Formats
5.4. Antelope File Format: COMPACT and REDUNDANT Row Formats

This section discusses how certain InnoDB features, such as table compression and off-page storage of long columns, are controlled by the ROW_FORMAT clause of the CREATE TABLE statement. It discusses considerations for choosing the right row format and compatibility of row formats between MySQL releases.

This is the User’s Guide for the InnoDB storage engine 1.1 for MySQL 5.5, generated on 2012-05-23 (revision: 30566) .

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