How to find all tables of a particular storage engine in MySQL

This tutorial is designed to show the easy steps of finding all tables of a particular storage engine in MySQL. Good Luck!

MySQL supports several storage engines with different features and functions. If you want to find out what tables are using a particular storage engine in MySQL instance then run these simple queries in a MySQL command line interface.

Note: MySQL information_schema database exists in MySQL version 5 and above.

mysql> use information_schema; mysql> SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME FROM `TABLES` WHERE TABLE_TYPE LIKE 'myisam';

The query above outputs all tables in a database that were… read more…