How to Get True Size of MySQL Database?

Question

I would like to know how much space does my MySQL database use, in order to select a web host. I found the command SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE \'table_name\' so when

Answer 1

From S. Prakash, found at the MySQL forum:

SELECT table_schema "database name",
    sum( data_length + index_length ) / 1024 / 1024 "database size in MB",
    sum( data_free )/ 1024 / 1024 "free space in MB"
FROM information_schema.TABLES
GROUP BY table_schema; 

Or in a single line for easier copy-pasting:

SELECT table_schema "database name", sum( data_length + index_length ) / 1024 / 1024 "database size in MB", sum( data_free )/ 1024 / 1024 "free space in MB" FROM information_schema.TABLES GROUP BY table_schema; 

Answer 2

If you use phpMyAdmin, it can tell you this information.

Just go to "Databases" (menu on top) and click "Enable Statistics".

You will see something like this:

This will probably lose some accuracy as the sizes go up, but it should be accurate enough for your purposes.

Answer 3

None of the answers include the overhead size and the metadata sizes of tables.

Here is a more accurate estimation of the "disk space" allocated by a database.

SELECT ROUND((SUM(data_length+index_length+data_free) + (COUNT(*) * 300 * 1024))/1048576+150, 2) AS MegaBytes FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE table_schema = 'DATABASE-NAME'

Answer 4

Basically there are two ways: query DB (data length + index length) or check files size. Index length is related to data stored in indexes.

Everything is described here:

http://www.mkyong.com/mysql/how-to-calculate-the-mysql-database-size/

Answer 5

If you want to find the size of all MySQL databases, us this command, it will show their respective sizes in megabytes;

SELECT table_schema "database", sum(data_length + index_length)/1024/1024 "size in MB" FROM information_schema.TABLES GROUP BY table_schema;

If you have large databases, you can use the following command to show the result in gigabytes;

SELECT table_schema "database", sum(data_length + index_length)/1024/1024/1024 "size in GB" FROM information_schema.TABLES GROUP BY table_schema;

If you want to show the size of only a specific database, for example YOUR_DATABASE_NAME, you could use the following query;

SELECT table_schema "database", sum(data_length + index_length)/1024/1024/1024 "size in GB" FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE table_schema='YOUR_DATABASE_NAME' GROUP BY table_schema;

Answer 6

MySQL Utilities by Oracle have a command called mysqldiskusage that displays the disk usage of every database: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-utilities/1.6/en/mysqldiskusage.html