Showing posts with label SQL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SQL. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

MYSQL: How to get the summary of tables in a DB

I sometimes want to see the number of rows in the tables of my DB. Instead of using COUNT for each table, use this command to get the summary of your database.
   mysql> show table status; 
Results: +----------------------------------------+--------+---------+------------+-------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+-------------+------------+-------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ | Name | Engine | Version | Row_format | Rows | Avg_row_length | Data_length | Max_data_length | Index_length | Data_free | Auto_increment | Create_time | Update_time | Check_time | Collation | Checksum | Create_options | Comment | +----------------------------------------+--------+---------+------------+-------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+-------------+------------+-------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ | account_customer | InnoDB | 10 | Compact | 0 | 0 | 16384 | 0 | 0 | 51380224 | 1 | 2012-10-16 12:34:33 | NULL | NULL | latin1_swedish_ci | NULL |