SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] STATUS [LIKE ’ pattern ’ | WHERE  expr ] SHOW Statements SHOW STATUS  provides server status information (see Section 5.1.10, “Server Status Variables” ). This statement does not require any privilege. It requires only the ability to connect to the server. Status variable information is also available from these sources: •Performance Schema tables. See Section 27.12.15, “Performance Schema Status Variable Tables” . •The  mysqladmin extended-status  command. See Section 4.5.2, “mysqladmin — A MySQL Server Administration Program” . •With a  GLOBAL  modifier, the statement displays the global status values. A global status variable may represent status for some aspect of the server itself (for example,  Aborted_connects ), or the aggregated status over all connections to MySQL (for example,  Bytes_received  and  Bytes_sent ). If a variable has no global value, the session value is displayed. •With a  SESSION  modifier, the statement displays the status variable values for the current connection. If a variable has no session value, the global value is displayed.  LOCAL  is a synonym for  SESSION . •If no modifier is present, the default is  SESSION . For  SHOW STATUS , a  LIKE  clause, if present, indicates which variable names to match. A  WHERE  clause can be given to select rows using more general conditions, as discussed in Section 26.8, “Extensions to SHOW Statements” . SHOW STATUS  accepts an optional  GLOBAL  or  SESSION  variable scope modifier: The scope for each status variable is listed at Section 5.1.10, “Server Status Variables” . Each invocation of the  SHOW STATUS  statement uses an internal temporary table and increments the global  Created_tmp_tables  value. Partial output is shown here. The list of names and values may differ for your server. The meaning of each variable is given in Section 5.1.10, “Server Status Variables” . mysql>  SHOW STATUS; +--------------------------+------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------+------------+ | Aborted_clients | 0 | | Aborted_connects | 0 | | Bytes_received | 155372598 | | Bytes_sent | 1176560426 | | Connections | 30023 | | Created_tmp_disk_tables | 0 | | Created_tmp_tables | 8340 | | Created_tmp_files | 60 | ... | Open_tables | 1 | | Open_files | 2 | | Open_streams | 0 | | Opened_tables | 44600 | | Questions | 2026873 | ... | Table_locks_immediate | 1920382 | | Table_locks_waited | 0 | | Threads_cached | 0 | | Threads_created | 30022 | | Threads_connected | 1 | | Threads_running | 1 | 2958