SQL to check if database is empty (no tables)

Question

I need to check if a database is totally empty (no tables) using an SQL query. How can this be done?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Solution: In order to verify your databases is not empty you can watch list of tables and measure instances in it.

first: perform simple connection to your db mysql -u -p ,run show databases; pick your database using use ; and then run show tables; and expect to have list of tables.

+----------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_databaseName                 |
+----------------------------------------+
| databaseA                              |
| databaseB                              |
| databaseC                              |
+----------------------------------------+

Second: Perform simple count action on primary key / main table on sql and count instances:

select count(*) from ;

count result should be > 0

+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|   100    |
+----------+