Mysql OPTIMIZE TABLE COMMAND within django

Question

There a few questions out there on what OPTIMIZE TABLE COMMAND does. I know that it helps to clear up the overhead that can hang around in fragmented tables. For me there are sometimes that I need to run it and I wanted to create a view to run these commands from within django.

Is the best way to do this using raw SQL or is there some other django orm to help with it?

Answer 1

Raw SQL is the way to go here.

from django.db import connections, transaction
cursor = connections['default'].cursor()
cursor.execute('OPTIMIZE TABLE;')
transaction.commit_unless_managed(using='my_db_alias')

Answer 2

The best way to do this is by executing the custom sql directly.

But it is very dangerous to this kind of system or database administration through the application; if something goes wrong with that command your django application could go offline taking your database management tools with it.