Third-Party DB Tools

There are few third-party tools available that can provide the size and health of your MySQL databases. Some popular tools are:

• MySQL Workbench
• phpMyAdmin, and others.

SQL stands for Structured Query Language which is a computer language for storing, manipulating, and retrieving data stored in relational database management systems (RDBMS). SQL was developed at IBM by Donald Chamberlin, Donald C. Messerli, and Raymond F. Boyce in the year 1970s. MySQL is an open-source Relational Database Management System that stores data in a structured format using rows and columns. MYSQL language is easy to use as compared to other programming languages like C, C++, Java, etc. By learning some basic commands we can work, create, and interact with the Database.

A table is used to organize data in the form of rows and columns and is used for both storing and displaying records in the structure format. It is similar to worksheets in the spreadsheet application. A table creation command requires three things:

• Name of the table
• Names of fields
• Definitions for each field

MySQL allows us to create a table in the database mainly in two ways:

• MySQL Command Line Client
• MySQL Workbench

To get the size of a MySQL database, you can use various methods, including SQL queries or checking the file system. Here are a few ways to accomplish this: