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Cutting a MySQL table in half with one line
We had a wide MySQL table — 8 million rows, 8 GB on disk, mostly index — about to grow 10× from a historical backfill. The instinct was to normalise: pull repeated strings into dimension tables. Classic relational hygiene. But twenty minutes spent measuring cardinality and average length per column
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