Fethiye Akbulut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I would like to see if all the tables in my database have the "comment"
> field equal to a given value. I understand that "show table status" command
> is able to show us the "comment" field's value. I was wondering how we can
> extract only this field when we do conduct our queries from a mysql client
> or a program written in tcl/tk and/or perl?
If you play with it a little, you'll find that running "show columns from table"
returns a recordset, just like a select statement, and you can search for your
comments that way. Very convenient :)
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