How can you determine how much disk space a particular MySQL table is taking up?

For a table mydb.mytable run this for:

BYTES

SELECT (data_length+index_length) tablesize
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema='mydb' and table_name='mytable';

KILOBYTES

SELECT (data_length+index_length)/power(1024,1) tablesize_kb
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema='mydb' and table_name='mytable';

MEGABYTES

SELECT (data_length+index_length)/power(1024,2) tablesize_mb
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema='mydb' and table_name='mytable';

GIGABYTES

SELECT (data_length+index_length)/power(1024,3) tablesize_gb
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema='mydb' and table_name='mytable';

GENERIC

Here is a generic query where the maximum unit display is TB (TeraBytes)

SELECT 
    CONCAT(FORMAT(DAT/POWER(1024,pw1),2),' ',SUBSTR(units,pw1*2+1,2)) DATSIZE,
    CONCAT(FORMAT(NDX/POWER(1024,pw2),2),' ',SUBSTR(units,pw2*2+1,2)) NDXSIZE,
    CONCAT(FORMAT(TBL/POWER(1024,pw3),2),' ',SUBSTR(units,pw3*2+1,2)) TBLSIZE
FROM
(
    SELECT DAT,NDX,TBL,IF(px>4,4,px) pw1,IF(py>4,4,py) pw2,IF(pz>4,4,pz) pw3
    FROM 
    (
        SELECT data_length DAT,index_length NDX,data_length+index_length TBL,
        FLOOR(LOG(IF(data_length=0,1,data_length))/LOG(1024)) px,
        FLOOR(LOG(IF(index_length=0,1,index_length))/LOG(1024)) py,
        FLOOR(LOG(IF(data_length+index_length=0,1,data_length+index_length))/LOG(1024)) pz
        FROM information_schema.tables
        WHERE table_schema='mydb'
        AND table_name='mytable'
    ) AA
) A,(SELECT 'B KBMBGBTB' units) B;

Give it a Try !!!


This won't be accurate for InnoDB tables. The size on disk is actually bigger than that reported via query.

Please see this link from Percona for more information.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2008/12/16/how-much-space-does-empty-innodb-table-take/


Quick bit of SQL to get the top 20 biggest tables in MB.

SELECT table_schema, table_name,
  ROUND((data_length+index_length)/POWER(1024,2),2) AS tablesize_mb
FROM information_schema.tables
ORDER BY tablesize_mb DESC LIMIT 20;

Hope that's useful to somebody!

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