Get record counts for all tables in MySQL database

Heya

Is there a way to get the count of rows in all tables in a mysql database without running a SELECT count() on each table?

Cheers

From stackoverflow

• You can probably put something together with Tables table. I've never done it, but it looks like it has a column for *TABLE_ROWS* and one for TABLE NAME.

  To get rows per table, you can use a query like this:

  SELECT table_name, table_rows
  FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
  WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = '**YOUR SCHEMA**';
  

  Mark : Thanks that works too.

• SELECT SUM(TABLE_ROWS) 
       FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
       WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = '{your_db}';
  

  Note from the docs though: For InnoDB tables, the row count is only a rough estimate used in SQL optimization.

  TheSoftwareJedi : or, if you want for each table: SELECT table_name, TABLE_ROWS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = '{your_db}';