To coalesce fragmented records and eliminate wasted space resulting from
deleting or updating records, run isamchk in recovery mode:@:
shell> isamchk -r nom_table
You can optimize a table in the same way using the SQL OPTIMIZE TABLE
statement. OPTIMIZE TABLE is easier, but isamchk is faster.
isamchk also has a number of other options you can use to improve
the performance of a table:@:
-S, --sort-index
-R index_num, --sort-records=index_num
-a, --analyze
For a full description of the option see 13.1.1 Syntaxe isamchk.