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    sottwell Reply #1, 21 years, 2 months ago
    I noticed that some of the logging tables are InnoDB type, while most of the tables are MyISAM. Is there some reason for this?
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      xwisdom Reply #2, 21 years, 2 months ago
      Quote from: sottwell at Aug 11, 2005, 01:41 AM

      I noticed that some of the logging tables are InnoDB type, while most of the tables are MyISAM.  Is there some reason for this?

      InnoDB supports transactions. On large websites you might want all those changes to be saved as a whole or not saved at all.
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