Title: Difference between Optimize and Alter Force?
Last modified: October 19, 2024

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# Difference between Optimize and Alter Force?

 *  Resolved [Aggravated Badger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tehcook/)
 * (@tehcook)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-optimize-and-alter-force/)
 * Hi there, really love the plugin! What’s the difference between Optimize and 
   Alter Force or both combined?

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 *  Plugin Author [Milan Petrovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gdragon/)
 * (@gdragon)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-optimize-and-alter-force/#post-18082843)
 * These are different methods to run optimization and try to convince the server
   to clear the cached data and report real status of the tables. Depending on the
   MySQL/MariaDB configuration, you can often have optimization completed, but the
   server still reports that it is not optimized due to the cache of the table statistics.
 * For some servers, different methods offered in this plugin give you better results.
   According to MySQL documentation ‘OPTIMIZE’ is all you need, but in reallity,
   it is not that simple.
 * Regards,
   Milan

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 * Last reply from: [Milan Petrovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gdragon/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-optimize-and-alter-force/#post-18082843)
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