February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
The MyISAM storage engine uses tables having a small footprint. It has table-level locking implemented and so is mostly used where there are read-only or read-mostly data workloads, such as in data warehousing and web configurations. Each of the MyISAM tables are stored with two files on disk. The filename begins with the table name and its extension type, one with the .MYD extension for the data file and another with the .MYI extension for the index file.
For the MyISAM engine, there are several startup options specified with mysqld that can change the behavior of MyISAM tables; for example:
--myisam-recover-options=mode
This option will set the mode in the automatic recovery of crashed tables in MyISAM.
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