Shawn, what language(s) are you using to parse this? Could you share the
code?

Thanks,

Dave Merrill


> I prefer to parse the results of a "SHOW CREATE TABLE..." query. It's
> rather trivial to detect which rows in the result of that statement are
> your FOREIGN KEYS. They not only indicate which table(s) is/are this
> table's parent(s) but also which columns participate in each
> relationship.
> This technique does not rely on any particular connection library as the
> functionality is provided by MySQL itself. Once the INFORMATION_SCHEMA
> views are made available as of v5.x+ we will have an alternative to using
> the "SHOW" family of statements to extract schema metadata.
>
> Shawn Green
> Database Administrator
> Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine



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