mysql> show global variables like 'storage_engine'; +----------------+--------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------+--------+ | storage_engine | InnoDB | +----------------+--------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> create table t2 like t1; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.29 sec) mysql> show create table t2; +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Create Table | +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | t2 | CREATE TABLE `t2` ( `a` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=ndbcluster DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 | +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> show tables; +----------------+ | Tables_in_test | +----------------+ | t1 | | t2 | +----------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> show create table t2; +-------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Create Table | +-------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | t2 | CREATE TABLE `t2` ( `a` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, PRIMARY KEY (`a`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 | +-------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> show engines; +------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | Engine | Support | Comment | Transactions | XA | Savepoints | +------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | ndbcluster | NO | Clustered, fault-tolerant tables | NULL | NULL | NULL | | MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables | NO | NO | NO | | ndbinfo | YES | MySQL Cluster system information storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | CSV | YES | CSV storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables | NO | NO | NO | | FEDERATED | NO | Federated MySQL storage engine | NULL | NULL | NULL | | ARCHIVE | YES | Archive storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | InnoDB | DEFAULT | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES | YES | YES | | MyISAM | YES | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance | NO | NO | NO | | BLACKHOLE | YES | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO | NO | NO | +------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec)