Introduction

One of the key aspects in maintaining a database is managing tables. Often, you need to alter a big table or clone a table. In this chapter, you will learn about managing big tables. Some open source third-party tools are used as MySQL does not support certain operations. The installation and usage of third-party tools are also covered in this chapter.

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