Question

1. Why does INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES take ages to return result on my live server but not on my localhost? (I think it clashes my live server each time I perform this!)

2. Any alternatives for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES to list all tables and numbers of record in each table?

Here is the query:

SELECT * 
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA LIKE 'db_name'

What I need are only

<?php echo $item['TABLE_NAME'];?> (using INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES)
<?php echo $item['TABLE_ROWS'];?> (using INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES)

Thanks.

Answer 1

Take a look at

show table status