A fake table that reports on the state of the instances. sysinstances includes a row for each instance defined in the cluster configuration. sysinstances contains information specific to the Cluster Edition.
Although sysinstances is a fake table, it is not impacted by the setting of set system_view, and always returns a row for each instance, regardless of the system_view setting.
The columns for sysinstances are.
| Column name | Datatype | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| id | tiny int | ID of the instance | 
| name | varchar(30) | Name of the instance | 
| state | char(17) | State of the instance (one of  | 
| hostname | varchar(255) | Name of the operating system host running this instance | 
| starttime | datetime | Date and time the instance started | 
| connections_active | int | Number of active connections on the instance | 
| engines_online | smallint | Number of online engines for this instance | 
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