try: SHOW TABLE STATUS Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine
"Michael J. Pawlowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/14/2004 06:54:16 AM: > Does anyone know of a quick way to get the number of rows in a database > from the command prompt. > > I run a cron job that does a mysql dump nightly from a prod server piped > to a standy server. > It's a 2 line shell script including outputting the date at time. > > After the dump, I would like to output the number of rows in the prod > database and the newly updated standby database to make sure these > match. The output is e-mailed to me, so in the morning I could simply > see if they match and be assured that the dump went well. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
