MySQL 5.7 Release Notes
- 14.9.1.1 Overview of Table Compression
- 14.9.1.2 Creating Compressed Tables
- 14.9.1.3 Tuning Compression for InnoDB Tables
- 14.9.1.4 Monitoring InnoDB Table Compression at Runtime
- 14.9.1.5 How Compression Works for InnoDB Tables
- 14.9.1.6 Compression for OLTP Workloads
- 14.9.1.7 SQL Compression Syntax Warnings and Errors
This section describes InnoDB table
compression, which is supported with InnoDB
tables that reside in
file_per_table
tablespaces or general
tablespaces. Table compression is enabled using the
ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED attribute with
CREATE TABLE or
ALTER TABLE.