title: How to get the sizes of the tables of a MySQL database?
body: <p>I can run this query to get the sizes of all tables in a MySQL database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>show table status from myDatabaseName;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like some help in understanding the results. I am looking for tables with the largest sizes. </p>
  
  <p>Which column should I look at?</p>