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      17.9.1 InnoDB Table Compression
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       17.9.1.1 Overview of Table Compression
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       17.9.1.2 Creating Compressed Tables
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       17.9.1.3 Tuning Compression for InnoDB Tables
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       17.9.1.4 Monitoring InnoDB Table Compression at Runtime
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       17.9.1.5 How Compression Works for InnoDB Tables
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       17.9.1.6 Compression for OLTP Workloads
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       17.9.1.7 SQL Compression Syntax Warnings and Errors
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   This section describes
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    InnoDB
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   table
      compression, which is supported with
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    InnoDB
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   tables that reside in
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    file_per_table
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   tablespaces or
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    general
      tablespaces
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   . Table compression is enabled using the
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    ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED
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   attribute with
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     CREATE TABLE
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   or
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     ALTER TABLE
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