Why does my InnoDB table have a weird value for record count?
Below is the ammount of rows for 2 tables in my mysql DB 1 is myisam the other innodb, can someone tell me why the innodb one has this ~ in front of the number? These numbers came from phpmyadmin 10,308 MyISAM ~118,011 InnoDB phpMyAdmin uses SHOW TABLE STATUS to get information for your tables. From the documentation : Rows The number of rows. Some storage engines, such as MyISAM, store the exact count. For other storage engines, such as InnoDB, this value is an approximation, and may vary from the actual value by as much as 40 to 50%. In such cases, use SELECT COUNT(*) to obtain an accurate