mysql: getting system info

Paul Verreth — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0100

Shortlist of the most useful show command’s:

pager less;

show databases;

show tables;

show create database|table database|table;

show [full] processlist; (\G)

show table status;

show status;
show engine innodb status; (\G)

show privileges;
show grants;

show variables;

show warnings;
show error;

Attention:

Output from show table status:

For the innodb engine: InnoDB free: ... : free space in the tablespace.

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