MARIADB-CO...BLE-FORMAT(1)

💖 MARIADB-CONVERT-TABLE-FORMAT 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for mariadb-convert-table-format from the MariaDB Database System, and it's literally the glow-up tool for your tables. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mariadb-convert-table-format — convert tables to use a given storage engine (mariadb-convert-table-format is now a symlink to mariadb-convert-table-format)

yes bestie, that sentence says what it says. i'm not touching it. that's canon. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mariadb-convert-table-format [options] db_name

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

mariadb_convert_table_format converts the tables in a database to use a particular storage engine (MyISAM by default). no cap, that's the whole job.

mariadb-convert-table-format is written in Perl and it requires that the DBI and DBD::MariaDB Perl modules be installed (see Section 2.15, "Perl Installation Notes"). so if you skip that step, it's giving "why is nothing working" energy. 💀

Invoke mariadb-convert-table-format like this:

shell> mariadb-convert-table-format [options]db_name

The db_name argument indicates the database containing the tables to be converted. like, that's your target. that's the main character. 👑

mariadb-convert-table-format supports the options described in the following list.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — display a help message and exit. slay, free knowledge.
• --force — continue even if errors occur. bold. fearless. iconic. 🔥
• --host=host_name — connect to the MariaDB server on the given host.
• --password=password — the password to use when connecting to the server. Note that the password value is not optional for this option, unlike for other MariaDB programs.

🚨 Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. You can use an option file to avoid giving the password on the command line. protect yourself bestie, fr fr.

• --port=port_num — the TCP/IP port number to use for the connection.
• --socket=path — for connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use.
• --type=engine_name — specify the storage engine that the tables should be converted to use. The default is MyISAM if this option is not given. this is the one that actually picks the fit. 💅
• --user=user_name — the MariaDB user name to use when connecting to the server.
• --verbose — verbose mode. print more information about what the program does. yapper mode: activated. 🗣️
• --version — display version information and exit.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2025 MariaDB Foundation

This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and convert those tables. periodt. 💅✨

this has been MariaDB 11.8, dated 5 March 2025, signing off like the icon it is 🎀🦋