I will be shutting down the script at a certain time each day to run some things like this for maintenance. So none of these should be active and if they are, it won't hurt anything. The customer can just wait until the maintenance time is over. Approximately 10 mintues.How do you know whether it's an "active" a* table or not? Will you be dropping a table that someone is actually using?
At 10:21 PM 12/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Basically just do a a php script the sends the sql "show tables"; > > Then do a strchr() to see if "a" is the first letter in the resuts and if > so do a delete table. > > Just yo play safe do a dump of your db first.Or even better, use SHOW TABLES LIKE 'a%' to just get the a* tables and drop each one. How do you know whether it's an "active" a* table or not? Will you be dropping a table that someone is actually using? ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ow3
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