At 17:47 16/04/2001 -0700, Sam Daniel wrote:
>I am interested in retrieving Field and Type information from a named
>table. Currently, MySQL allows me to see a table's description via
>
>mysql> describe TheTable;
>
>returning its structure in the form of a table, including the Fields and
>Types columns. I would like to retrieve the contents of these two
>columns. What is the SQL call that will do this?
You can use SHOW FIELDS FROM tableName;
>Sam Daniel
>Motorola
>480-441-7431
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John
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