MySQL InnoDB File Formats

"Versions of MySQL now come equipped with the powerful and stable InnoDB plugin. The InnoDB plugin comes with a lot of new features, bug fixes and performance gains. We will be covering file formats today, which is a very important part of the InnoDB plugin feature set.

"For this article I will be working with the beta MySQL version 5.5.6-rc-log, which contains the 1.1.2 InnoDB plugin. Although I am working with beta in this article please note that MySQL 5.5 is now GA and you can download it here. On a side note, if you would like to see what version of the InnoDB plugin you are using, please use the following command:"

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