{"id":2116,"date":"2020-06-09T02:34:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=2116"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:06:52","slug":"change-the-mysql-table-engine-innodb","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/change-the-mysql-table-engine-innodb","title":{"rendered":"5 Easy Steps to Successfully Change the MySQL Database Table Engine to InnoDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Change the MySQL database table engine to InnoDB<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">1) Log into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phpmyadmin.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PHPMyAdmin<\/a>. (You can get your PHPMyAdmin URL inside your cPanel \/ HELM)<br \/>\n2) Select the database<br \/>\n3) Click on the\u00a0<strong>SQL<\/strong>\u00a0Tab<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">4) Run the query as below.<br \/>\n<em>ALTER TABLE\u00a0<b>TableName<\/b>\u00a0ENGINE = InnoDB;<\/em><br \/>\n<i>Note:<br \/>\n<\/i><em><b>TableName<\/b><\/em>: database table name<br \/>\n5) Click\u00a0<strong>Go<\/strong>\u00a0button<br \/>\n6) Done<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you need to know how to backup Mysql Database using PHPMyAdmin, please<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/backup-mysql-database-using-phpmyadmin\"> refer this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change the MySQL database table engine to InnoDB 1) Log into\u00a0PHPMyAdmin. (You can get your PHPMyAdmin URL inside your cPanel \/ HELM) 2) Select the database 3) Click on the\u00a0SQL\u00a0Tab 4) Run the query as below. ALTER TABLE\u00a0TableName\u00a0ENGINE = InnoDB; Note: TableName: database table name 5) Click\u00a0Go\u00a0button 6) Done If you need to know how to backup Mysql Database using&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[51],"kbtag":[1317],"class_list":["post-2116","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-mysql","kbtag-mysql-database"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6379,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2116\/revisions\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}