mysql> show engines;
+------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Engine | Support | Comment |
+------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| MyISAM | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance |
| HEAP | YES | Alias for MEMORY |
| MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables |
| MERGE | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES | Alias for MERGE |
| ISAM | NO | Obsolete storage engine, now replaced by MyISAM |
| MRG_ISAM | NO | Obsolete storage engine, now replaced by MERGE |
| InnoDB | YES | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys |
| INNOBASE | YES | Alias for INNODB |
| BDB | NO | Supports transactions and page-level locking |
| BERKELEYDB | NO | Alias for BDB |
| NDBCLUSTER | NO | Clustered, fault-tolerant, memory-based tables |
| NDB | NO | Alias for NDBCLUSTER |
| EXAMPLE | NO | Example storage engine |
| ARCHIVE | NO | Archive storage engine |
| CSV | NO | CSV storage engine |
+------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+
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mysql> show variables like "have_%";
+------------------+----------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+------------------+----------+
| have_bdb | YES |
| have_crypt | YES |
| have_innodb | DISABLED |
| have_isam | YES |
| have_raid | YES |
| have_symlink | YES |
| have_openssl | YES |
| have_query_cache | YES |
+------------------+----------+
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CREATE TABLE mytable (id int, title char(20)) ENGINE = INNODB
ALTER TABLE mytable ENGINE = MyISAM