Re: Real Basic Question

2004-10-04 Thread Kyle Kirkland
Mysql \P less PAGER set to less Mysql show tables; You can see other cool flags by typing 'help;' at the mysql prompt. On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:58:29 -0700, OMalley, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a beginner, so forgive me. From mysql if I type: Mysqlshow tables; The result scrolls

RE: SQL for detecting if Column/Index already exists?

2004-09-23 Thread Kyle Kirkland
At 4:00 7/27/04, Paul DuBois wrote: At 16:22 -0500 7/26/04, Ghate, Shishir wrote: I looked at the SHOW COLUMNS statement and they have what I want, but I need to condition off them. For example, I don't want to execute an ALTER TABLE command to add a column if that column is already there.

Re: SQL for detecting if Column/Index already exists?

2004-09-23 Thread Kyle Kirkland
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:20:17 -0700, Kyle Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance 'IF EXISTS' being added to the 'ALTER TABLE' statements? It sure would be nice to execute something like: ALTER TABLE tmp ADD INDEX joy ( to, the, world ) IF EXISTS; Make that 'IF NOT EXISTS'. Sorry