SurlyJake » engine http://www.surlyjake.com Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:28:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MySQL table storage engine (switching from MyIsam to InnoDB) http://www.surlyjake.com/2008/10/mysql-table-storage-engine-switching-from-myisam-to-innodb/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mysql-table-storage-engine-switching-from-myisam-to-innodb http://www.surlyjake.com/2008/10/mysql-table-storage-engine-switching-from-myisam-to-innodb/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:14:56 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=58 I know I did this the hard way. there is a command that you can issue that will convert them on the fly. what I did was mysqldump the database, reinstall mysql(because of other reasons), and then edit the dump so that the line that specified the reads “=INNODB” instead of “=MyISAM”.Then I imported the dump.

I was getting annoyed that when listing my tables in phpmyadmin,  it would show the list of tables in InnoDB (which is what i wanted), but then, when showing the summary at the bottom of the page, said “MyIsam”. I easily got rid of it by adding “default-storage-engine=InnoDB” to my “my.cnf” file.

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