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Originally Posted by Warden-B-
I think it is kind of like defragging your PC to make it run faster. Same principle. You would be, in this case, optimizing the tables so that your database, and maybe your site, will run more smoothly. That is what I am getting out of the authors description. I could be wrong though.
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Non-optimized tables can have some space which can be released for any other data, and MySQL didn't have this type of process by default.