14.9.1 InnoDB Table Compression

14.9.1.1 Overview of Table Compression
14.9.1.2 Creating Compressed Tables
14.9.1.3 Tuning Compression for InnoDB Tables
14.9.1.4 Monitoring InnoDB Table Compression at Runtime
14.9.1.5 How Compression Works for InnoDB Tables
14.9.1.6 Compression for OLTP Workloads
14.9.1.7 SQL Compression Syntax Warnings and Errors

This section describes InnoDB table compression, which is supported with InnoDB tables that reside in file_per_table tablespaces or general tablespaces. Table compression is enabled using the ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED attribute with CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE.