Sure! Try this: SELECT * FROM table WHERE 1=2
-ms ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Teglasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:42 PM Subject: Getting an empty result set is what I want! Hi all, this is Scotty. I wanted to know if it's possible to have MySQL return a resultset even though there are no results. I want this so that I can retrieve field information on each field that's in the query. (field type, length, etc). I know I can use describe or show columns to get the table info, however I want to be able to have my code pick out the field information from just about any query you throw at it. (although some fairly simple queries will be used with this code most of the time.) I recall in oracle there was a way using rownumber = 0 to just retrieve row 0, and I could read the field names. I'm using PHP to write this. Can anybody help? Scotty -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
