Aaron KiliLast Updated: December 18, 2017 Read Time: 1 minCategories MariaDB, MySQL Leave a comment In this article, I will show you how to check the size of MySQL/MariaDB databases and tables via the MySQL shell. You will learn how to determine the real size of a database file on the disk as well as size of data that it present in a database. Read Also: 20 MySQL (Mysqladmin) Commands for Database