Maybe this will work:
SHOW CREATE TABLE table_name;
On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Richard Edward Horner wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Hopefully some of you are already enjoying time off. I am not...yet :)
>
> Anyway, is there a way to determine what storage engine a table is
> using if it's crashed? When it's fine, I can just run:
>
> mysql> show table status like 'table_name';
> +-------------+--------+---------+------------+--------
> +----------------+-------------+------------------+--------------
> +-----------+----------------+---------------------
> +---------------------+---------------------+-------------------
> +----------+----------------+---------+
> | 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 |
> +-------------+--------+---------+------------+--------
> +----------------+-------------+------------------+--------------
> +-----------+----------------+---------------------
> +---------------------+---------------------+-------------------
> +----------+----------------+---------+
> | table_name | MyISAM | 10 | Fixed | 985984 | 13
> | 12817792 | 3659174697238527 | 34238464 | 0 |
> 1182153 | 2007-11-15 17:44:28 | 2007-11-21 15:28:07 | 2007-11-21
> 15:28:18 | latin1_swedish_ci | NULL | | |
> +-------------+--------+---------+------------+--------
> +----------------+-------------+------------------+--------------
> +-----------+----------------+---------------------
> +---------------------+---------------------+-------------------
> +----------+----------------+---------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> As you can see, the second column returned is the Engine. In this
> case, MyISAM. Now, if I crash the table, it doesn't work:
>
> mysql> show table status like 'table_name';
> +-------------+--------+---------+------------+------
> +----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------
> +-----------+----------------+-------------+-------------
> +------------+-----------+----------+----------------
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------+
> | 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
> |
> +-------------+--------+---------+------------+------
> +----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------
> +-----------+----------------+-------------+-------------
> +------------+-----------+----------+----------------
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------+
> | table_name | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
> NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
> NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL |
> NULL | Table './blah/table_name' is marked as crashed and
> should be repaired |
> +-------------+--------+---------+------------+------
> +----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------
> +-----------+----------------+-------------+-------------
> +------------+-----------+----------+----------------
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> Now, let's assume for a moment this were an InnoDB table. If I were to
> try and run repair, it would say that the storage engine does not
> support repair so clearly it knows what the storage engine is. How do
> I get it to tell me? Or I guess a broader more helpful question would
> be, "What are all the ways to determine a table's storage engine
> type?"
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Richard Edward Horner
> Engineer / Composer / Electric Guitar Virtuoso
> rich@stripped
> http://richhorner.com - updated June 28th
>
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