How can I tell when a MySQL table was last updated?

Question

In the footer of my page, I would like to add something like \"last updated the xx/xx/200x\" with this date being the last time a certain mySQL table has been updated.

Answer 1

Just grab the file date modified from file system. In my language that is:

 tbl_updated = file.update_time(
        "C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\data\mydb\person.frm")

Output:

1/25/2013 06:04:10 AM

Answer 2

Not sure if this would be of any interest. Using mysqlproxy in between mysql and clients, and making use of a lua script to update a key value in memcached according to interesting table changes UPDATE,DELETE,INSERT was the solution which I did quite recently. If the wrapper supported hooks or triggers in php, this could have been eaiser. None of the wrappers as of now does this.

Answer 3

OS level analysis:

Find where the DB is stored on disk:

grep datadir /etc/my.cnf
datadir=/var/lib/mysql

Check for most recent modifications

cd /var/lib/mysql/{db_name}
ls -lrt

Should work on all database types.

Answer 4

For a list of recent table changes use this:

SELECT UPDATE_TIME, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME
FROM information_schema.tables
ORDER BY UPDATE_TIME DESC, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME

Answer 5

This is what I did, I hope it helps.

<?php
    mysql_connect("localhost", "USER", "PASSWORD") or die(mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db("information_schema") or die(mysql_error());
    $query1 = "SELECT `UPDATE_TIME` FROM `TABLES` WHERE
        `TABLE_SCHEMA` LIKE 'DataBaseName' AND `TABLE_NAME` LIKE 'TableName'";
    $result1 = mysql_query($query1) or die(mysql_error());
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result1)) {
        echo "<strong>1r tr.: </strong>".$row['UPDATE_TIME'];
    }
?>

Answer 6

I got this to work locally, but not on my shared host for my public website (rights issue I think).

SELECT last_update FROM mysql.innodb_table_stats WHERE table_name = 'yourTblName';

'2020-10-09 08:25:10'

MySQL 5.7.20-log on Win 8.1