I'm moving my local installation of Magento to a dev location on my hosting server. FTP is the easy part.
I created a new database on the hosting server, then connected via HeidiSQL. I exported my database from my local to the hosting server with no problems that I could tell (no errors reported) but I noticed that when I compared the two databases in size, local is 102mb but hosted is 86mb.
I figured something went wrong, so I dropped all the tables in the hosted mysql to start over.
Second attempt was the same outcome, so I tried a different way.
I used the Magento backend to make a backup of the database. Once I had the backup, I did the required modifications - removing the /*!40101 and */ at the beginning and end of the sql file, and uploaded it via PHPMyadmin.
Again, everything seemed to go off without a hitch, but when I accessed the database again via HeidiSQL, same problem, the database on the hosting server is smaller than local.
Am I missing something? Will this new smaller database still work?