SonarQube : How to reduce size of measures_data.ibd?

Question

I\'ve been using SonarQube/Sonar for a few years now and the measures_data.idb size has grown to a wopping 114GB, yes gig.

I\'ve got the default house keeping settings s

Answer 1

The solution in the end was simple.

Export from MySQL 5.5. (export file is 114 GB)

Uninstall MySQL 5.5 (remove all data files)

Install MySQL 5.6

Import data

Export from MySQL 5.6 (export file is now 13 GB)

Uninstall MySQL 5.6 (remove all data files)

Install MySQL 5.6

Import data