At 1:46 PM -0600 1/28/02, Paul DuBois wrote: >I'd write a script that issued SHOW TABLES, then a DESCRIBE for each >table.
Thanks for the suggestion, I know some of the workarounds, I am looking for the shortcut. Consider this as a feature request: allow for describe to take a wildcard for the table as well as the column. So instead of: describe MYdb.products '%'; You could do: describe MYdb '%'; to return all tables from the datbase MYdb -- Michael __ ||| Michael Collins ||| ||| Kuwago Web Services ||| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| Seattle, WA, USA ||| http://www.lassodev.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
