How to check an empty table already in a MySQL database?

To check an empty table is in a database, you need to extract some records from the table. If the table is not empty then the table records would be returned.

Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable(Id int,Name varchar(100),Age int); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.80 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable values(1001,'John',23); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(1002,'Chris',21); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(1003,'David',22); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.19 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+------+-------+------+ | Id | Name | Age | +------+-------+------+ | 1001 | John | 23 | | 1002 | Chris | 21 | | 1003 | David | 22 | +------+-------+------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Let us delete all records from the table −

mysql> delete from DemoTable where Id IN(1001,1002,1003); Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.19 sec)

Now try to get records from the table on the basis of where condition −

mysql> select Id from DemoTable where Name="John"; Empty set (0.00 sec)

You can see above, since the table is now empty, therefore an empty set is returned.