Optimizing all mysql tables (from all databases)

You want to optimize mysql tables from time to time in order to reduce fragmentation. Here’s an easy way to do it automatically (put it in a script and run it from cron for example)

mysqlcheck -Aop -h hostname -u user -pPASSWORD

What all those mean:

• -all-databases, -A; Check all tables in all databases. This is the same as using the -databases option and naming all the databases on the command line.
• -optimize, -o Optimize the tables.
• -h host to optimize (you can skip if it’s the localhost)
• -u mysql user
• -p the password