You run a medium-to-large size MySQL server with lots of databases, possibly for hosted websites. You've experienced performance degradation. You've fine-tuned your database engines, and no joy. Then you finally realise you need to run mysqloptimize, and the day is saved! Good on you. Of course, running mysqloptimize on a large server still takes half an ice age.
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Data Recovery... Not
This guy wrote a message to linux-greek-users, a Linux-related mailing list for Greek users. Although he's Greek, his message was in (less than perfect) English.
This sort of thing sets my IS_FLAMER flag. I replied in a similar manner (this is funnier if you can read obfuscated UNIX shell scripts). There's an explanation of the script and a translation of the (latinised — by necessity, the mailing list only talked US-ASCII) Greek bits at the bottom.
