tablespace
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tablespace (plural tablespaces)
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(databases) A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept.
The tablespace provides a layer of abstraction between physical and logical data.
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A mismatch between index information maintained within the files and the corresponding information in the InnoDB system tablespace could produce this error: columns unique inside InnoDB, but MySQL is asking statistics for columns.
Data-at-rest tablespace encryption is available in MySQL 5.7 and later.
On Windows systems, must be run separately for each user-defined tablespace file.
Prior to MySQL 5.6.7, the default was to keep all tables and indexes inside the system tablespace, often causing this file to become very large.