Question

I have a MySQL server which has it’s default storage engine set as InnoDB. I have a project which requires the tables in the database to be MyISAM. I’d like to create my database with a flag to set the default storage engine to be MyISAM. Is this possible without changing the server default and also without manually specifying each table?

Answer 1

EDITED:
Actually, yes – a global variable default-storage-engine can be changed only for a session, so

SET storage_engine=MYISAM;    
SET table_type=BDB;

will affect only the current session. See here for details.