How to select the MySQL's engine name of some table by sql query?

Question

How to select the MySQL's engine name of some table. MyISAM or InnoDB. Can we do it by a simple sql query?

Answer 1

Try

SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM db_name

Answer 2

You can also use the INFOMATION_SCHEMA database:

SELECT ENGINE FROM TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE 'words';