How to convert all tables from MyISAM into InnoDB?

Question

Run this SQL statement (in the MySQL client, phpMyAdmin, or wherever) to retrieve all the MyISAM tables in your database.

Replace value of the name_of_your_db variable with your database name.

SET @DATABASE_NAME = 'name_of_your_db';

SELECT  CONCAT('ALTER TABLE `', table_name, '` ENGINE=InnoDB;') AS sql_statements
FROM    information_schema.tables AS tb
WHERE   table_schema = @DATABASE_NAME
AND     `ENGINE` = 'MyISAM'
AND     `TABLE_TYPE` = 'BASE TABLE'
ORDER BY table_name DESC;

Then, copy the output and run as a new SQL query.

<?php
    // connect your database here first 
    // 

    // Actual code starts here 

    $sql = "SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
        WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'your_database_name' 
        AND ENGINE = 'MyISAM'";

    $rs = mysql_query($sql);

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
    {
        $tbl = $row[0];
        $sql = "ALTER TABLE `$tbl` ENGINE=INNODB";
        mysql_query($sql);
    }
?>

SELECT CONCAT('ALTER TABLE ',TABLE_NAME,' ENGINE=InnoDB;') 
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE ENGINE='MyISAM'
AND table_schema = 'mydatabase';

Works like a charm.

This will give you list of all tables with the alter queries that you can run in a batch

One line:

 mysql -u root -p dbName -e 
 "show table status where Engine='MyISAM';" | awk 
 'NR>1 {print "ALTER TABLE "$1" ENGINE = InnoDB;"}'  | 
  mysql -u root -p dbName

In the scripts below, replace <username>, <password> and <schema> with your specific data.

To show the statements that you can copy-paste into a mysql client session type the following:

echo 'SHOW TABLES;' \
 | mysql -u <username> --password=<password> -D <schema> \
 | awk '!/^Tables_in_/ {print "ALTER TABLE `"$0"` ENGINE = InnoDB;"}' \
 | column -t \

To simply execute the change, use this:

echo 'SHOW TABLES;' \
 | mysql -u <username> --password=<password> -D <schema> \
 | awk '!/^Tables_in_/ {print "ALTER TABLE `"$0"` ENGINE = InnoDB;"}' \
 | column -t \
 | mysql -u <username> --password=<password> -D <schema>

CREDIT: This is a variation of what was outlined in this article.

Use this as a sql query in your phpMyAdmin

SELECT CONCAT('ALTER TABLE ',table_schema,'.',table_name,' engine=InnoDB;') 
FROM information_schema.tables 
WHERE engine = 'MyISAM';

You can execute this statement in the mysql command line tool:

echo "SELECT concat('ALTER TABLE `',TABLE_NAME,'` ENGINE=InnoDB;')
FROM Information_schema.TABLES 
WHERE ENGINE != 'InnoDB' AND TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE' 
AND TABLE_SCHEMA='name-of-database'" | mysql > convert.sql

You may need to specify username and password using: mysql -u username -p The result is an sql script that you can pipe back into mysql:

mysql name-of-database < convert.sql

Replace "name-of-database" in the above statement and command line.