Hi Dom, On Jan 14, 2008 10:49 AM, Dominic Baines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a pretty long time I have returned to being a mysql DBA again after > spending a lot of time with Oracle and MSSQL. > > I have several databases that I need to to work on, all various source builds > from 4.1.16 to 4.0.20 and the average database contains some 200 or more > tables. Some are clustered some are stand alone. > > There is an overall project to upgrade and consolidate some of these and to > add in belt and braces redundancy and to add database backups. > > Most server installation are for just a single version, some installations > have just 2 or 3 databases some have 20 or more. > > The first task I need to run is to determine the database table storage > engines (all make use of MyISAM, InnoDB and Archive), then update frequency > and row numbers. > > Now if I use: > > show table status from <database name>; > > It will list all the table information I need however, what I am trying to > figure out is how to get access to the data this produces directly. > > The data I want is name, engine, rows, avg_row_length, max_data_length, > create_time and update_time. > > I can do it manually but that is a bit mind numbing and leads to inaccuracy > if this were Oracle I could query one of the V$ views and get this > immediately. If this were version 5 I might use INFORMATION_SCHEMA. > > Obviously it has been far too long and I have forgotten completely. > > I do not want to go down the perl if I can help it. Is there a way to do this > internally using sql I seem to remember there wasn't?
There's no way to do it from SQL, but try this, using a tool from Maatkit: mk-find --printf '%D.%N %E %S %A %M %C %U\n' Welcome back to MySQL :-) You can get Maatkit from http://sourceforge.net/projects/maatkit/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
