Title: Question about Optimize database
Last modified: November 29, 2025

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# Question about Optimize database

 *  Resolved [Marisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marisa2023/)
 * (@marisa2023)
 * [5 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-optimize-database/)
 * Does the database optimize also defragment database tables?

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 *  Plugin Support [jbgupdraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbgupdraft/)
 * (@jbgupdraft)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-optimize-database/#post-18739411)
 * Hi [@marisa2023](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marisa2023/),
 * Thanks for contacting us! Depending on the storage engine used (InnoDB or myISAM)
   then yes it will defragment the table. For InnoDB fragmentation is less of an
   issue but our plugin will run the OPTIMIZE table command and rebuild the table/
   defragment it.
 * Thank you!

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 * Last reply from: [jbgupdraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbgupdraft/)
 * Last activity: [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-optimize-database/#post-18739411)
 * Status: resolved