ADMIN CHECKSUM TABLE

The ADMIN CHECKSUM TABLE statement calculates a CRC64 checksum for the data and indexes of a table. This statement is used by programs such as TiDB Lightning to ensure that import operations have completed successfully.

Synopsis

AdminStmt
ADMINSHOWDDLJOBSInt64NumWhereClauseOptionalJOBQUERIESNumListTableNameNEXT_ROW_IDSLOWAdminShowSlowCHECKTABLETableNameListINDEXTableNameIdentifierHandleRange,RECOVERINDEXTableNameIdentifierCLEANUPINDEXTableNameIdentifierTABLELOCKTableNameListCHECKSUMTABLETableNameListCANCELDDLJOBSNumListRELOADEXPR_PUSHDOWN_BLACKLISTOPT_RULE_BLACKLISTBINDINGSPLUGINSENABLEDISABLEPluginNameListREPAIRTABLETableNameCreateTableStmtFLUSHCAPTUREEVOLVEBINDINGS
TableNameList
TableName,

Examples

Create table t1:

CREATE TABLE t1(id INT PRIMARY KEY);

Insert some data into t1:

INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1),(2),(3);

Calculate the checksum for t1:

ADMIN CHECKSUM TABLE t1;

The output is as follows:

+---------+------------+----------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Db_name | Table_name | Checksum_crc64_xor | Total_kvs | Total_bytes | +---------+------------+----------------------+-----------+-------------+ | test | t1 | 10909174369497628533 | 3 | 75 | +---------+------------+----------------------+-----------+-------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

MySQL compatibility

This statement is a TiDB extension to MySQL syntax.