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You can also use the deprecated ISAM table type. This will disappear rather soon (probably in MySQL 4.1) because MyISAM is a better implementation of the same thing. ISAM uses a B-tree index. The index is stored in a file with the .ISM extension, and the data is stored in a file with the .ISD extension. You can check/repair ISAM tables with the isamchk utility. See Crash recovery.

ISAM has the following features/properties:

· Compressed and fixed-length keys

· Fixed and dynamic record length

· 16 keys with 16 key parts/key

· Max key length 256 (default)

· Data is stored in machine format; this is fast, but is machine/OS dependent.

Most of the things true for MyISAM tables are also true for ISAM tables. See MyISAM. The major differences compared to MyISAM tables are:

· ISAM tables are not binary portable across OS/Platforms.

· Can't handle tables > 4G.

· Only support prefix compression on strings.

· Smaller key limits.

· Dynamic tables get more fragmented.

· Tables are compressed with pack_isam rather than with myisampack.

If you want to convert an ISAM table to a MyISAM table so that you can use utilities such as mysqlcheck, use an ALTER TABLE statement:

mysql> ALTER TABLE tbl_name TYPE = MYISAM;

The embedded MySQL versions doesn't support ISAM tables.