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what EXACTLY...

Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 2:56 pm
by hob_goblin
does optimizing a table do?

Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 3:28 pm
by mydimension
over the course of time, data will be inserted and deleted from your tables, leaving them defragmented (much like a FAT16/FAT32/NTFS harddrive). optimizing cleans up the unused space and compacts the table to be size efficient again.