How to Repair and Optimize Drupal Database

MySQL Repair and Optimize Database Table

How to Repair a corrupted drupal database?. If You have your drupal website hosted in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), You can follow the following steps to repair the corrupted MySQL database tables. May be!, sometimes the database tables get crashed during processing, so that they should be optimized periodically.

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Optimizing MySQL Database

Databases can possibly become large with the number of pages served and saved user data. For improving the performance of a drupal website with huge web traffic, periodic table (database table) optimization is needed. To optimize a MySQL database, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to cPanel.
  2. After Logging In, under the Databases section of the cPanel home screen, click phpMyAdmin. You are redirected to phpMyAdmin administration page - in a new window.
  3. In the left pane of PhpMyAdmin, click the name of the database that you want to optimize. Refer the following image which shows the example_drupal database selected
  4. In the right pane, select the check boxes for the tables in the database that you want to optimize.
  5. In the With selected list box, select Optimize table. phpMyAdmin informs you whether or not the optimization process is successful.

To select all of the tables at once, select the Check All check box.

Repairing MySQL Database

Databases can become corrupted for any number of reasons, from software defects to hardware issues. If this occurs, you can try to repair database tables using phpMyAdmin.

  1. Log in to cPanel.
  2. Follow the steps 1 to 4 from Optimizing MySQL Database.
  3. With selected list box, select Repair table. phpMyAdmin informs you whether or not the repair process is successful.

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