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SQL: Show all tables sorted by size in descending order

SQL: Show all tables sorted by size in descending order

Lately I've been using the SQL command more often to find out which tables in the TYPO3 database are the largest. I've published the snippet once.

This can be done easily via SQL command:

SELECT table_name AS `Table`, round(((data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024), 2) AS `Size (MB)` FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE table_schema = DATABASE() ORDER BY (data_length + index_length) DESC;

Example output:

+---------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Table | Size (MB) | +---------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | cache_hash | 1742.58 | | sys_history | 680.08 | | cache_pages | 172.09 | | sys_log | 150.23 | | sys_file_processedfile | 81.80 | | tt_content | 59.35 | | sys_refindex | 55.28 | | tx_extensionmanager_domain_model_extension | 44.14 | | sys_file_reference | 43.16 | | sys_file | 34.64 | ...

By the way, we have described how to exclude unnecessary tables from a dump in another snippet.

Alexander Kellner

Alex Kellner

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