To know whether a MySQL table is using MyISAM or InnoDB engine then you can use below syntax.
The below syntax can be used for multiple tables −
show table status from yourDatabaseName;
Here is the syntax that can be used for a specific table i.e. to know the engine of a table −
show table status from yourDatabaseName Like ‘yourTableName’.
The following is the query to display engine of all the tables −
mysql> show table status from sampleTest;
The following is the output −
+--------------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ | 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 | +--------------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ | datetimedemo | InnoDB | 10 | Dynamic | 0 | 0 | 16384 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NULL | 2018-12-05 09:22:54 | NULL | NULL | utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci | NULL | | | | primarydemo | InnoDB | 10 | Dynamic | 0 | 0 | 16384 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NULL | 2018-12-05 09:23:34 | NULL | NULL | utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci | NULL | | | | student | MyISAM | 10 | Dynamic | 0 | 0 | | 281474976710655 | 1024 | 0 | 1 | 2018-12-05 09:22:22 | 2018-12-05 09:22:23 | NULL | utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci | NULL | | | +--------------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ 3 rows in set (0.19 sec)
The following is the query to display engine type for a specific table −
mysql> show table status from sampletest Like 'student';
The following is the output that displays the engine for only “student” table −
+---------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ | 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 | +---------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ | student | MyISAM | 10 | Dynamic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 281474976710655 | 1024 | 0 | 1 | 2018-12-05 09:22:22 | 2018-12-05 09:22:23 | NULL | utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci | NULL | | | +---------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+---------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)