William Scott wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have a database with over 80 tables. Is there an easy way to find > table names that has PERSON_ID field using SELECT query? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Hi Scott,
if you are using version 5.0 or higher, you can query the schema tables in the information_schema database: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-schema.html In case you are using an older version, you need to issue a "show tables" query, iterate over all the tables, execute a "describe TABLE" statement for each and parse the output. Cheers Frank -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
