sysinstances

Description

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.

Columns

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 online, offline, joining, leaving, and initiating)

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

Indexes

None