How To Create a New Table Using the InnoDB Storage Engine in MySQL?

InnoDB storage engine was developed by Innobase Oy, which is an Oracle company now. InnoDB is transaction safe, and has been used by a number of large Websites, like Slashdot.org.

InnoDB is not the default storage engine. You need to specify "ENGINE = InnoDB" at the end of the "CREATE TABLE" statement to create new tables with InnoDB storage engine. The tutorial exercise below shows you a good example:

>cd \mysql\bin
>mysql -u dev -piyf fyi

mysql> CREATE TABLE fyi_inno (
  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
  title VARCHAR(80), 
  count INTEGER )
  ENGINE = InnoDB;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.17 sec)

mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE fyi_inno;
  CREATE TABLE `fyi_inno` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `title` varchar(80) default NULL,
  `count` int(11) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO fyi_inno (id) VALUES(-1);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec)

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