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Get table size in MySQL

Like most relational databases, MySQL provides useful metadata about the database itself. While most other databases refer to this information as a catalog, the official MySQL documentation refers to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA metadata as tables.

List Table Sizes From a Single Database

  • DATA_LENGTH is the length (or size) of all data in the table (in bytes).
  • INDEX_LENGTH is the length (or size) of the index file for the table (also in bytes).

Size of All Tables

SELECT
  TABLE_NAME AS `Table`,
  ROUND((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH) / 1024 / 1024) AS `Size (MB)`
FROM
  information_schema.TABLES
WHERE
  TABLE_SCHEMA = "bookstore"
ORDER BY
  (DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH)
DESC;

+----------------------------------+-----------+
| Table                            | Size (MB) |
+----------------------------------+-----------+
| book                             |       267 |
| author                           |        39 |
| post                             |        27 |
| cache                            |        24 |

Size of A Single Table

SELECT
  TABLE_NAME AS `Table`,
  ROUND((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH) / 1024 / 1024) AS `Size (MB)`
FROM
  information_schema.TABLES
WHERE
    TABLE_SCHEMA = "bookstore"
  AND
    TABLE_NAME = "book"
ORDER BY
  (DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH)
DESC;

+-------+-----------+
| Table | Size (MB) |
+-------+-----------+
| book  |       267 |
+-------+-----------+
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List All Table Sizes From ALL Databases

SELECT
  TABLE_SCHEMA AS `Database`,
  TABLE_NAME AS `Table`,
  ROUND((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH) / 1024 / 1024) AS `Size (MB)`
FROM
  information_schema.TABLES
ORDER BY
  (DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH)
DESC;

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