Alfredo Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/26/2005 10:07:30 AM:
Hi:
I need to compare the structure of two tables (fields, field types,
field
lengths, indices, etc.) to determine if they have the same schema, even
if
the fields may be in a different order. Is there a command in mysql
Hi,
I need to compare the structure of two tables (fields, field types, field
lengths, indices, etc.) to determine if they have the same schema, even if
the fields may be in a different order. Is there a command in mysql that
will
do this? This will be used to determine if the tables are
If you have the 5.0.x version of MySQL then INFROMATION SCHEMA can give
you what you want. i.e.
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS a
INNER JOIN _SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS b
ON (a.column_name = b.column_name)
WHERE a.TABLE_NAME = 'foo_1'
AND b.TABLE_NAME =
El Viernes, 26 de Agosto de 2005 08:16, Martijn Tonies escribió:
You could check the table DDL.
Or use a third party tool, like Database Workbench, that can do this for
you and even generator a change script. Check www.upscene.com
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
Hmmm. No Linux
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:14 -0600, Alfredo Cole wrote:
El Viernes, 26 de Agosto de 2005 08:16, Martijn Tonies escribió:
You could check the table DDL.
Or use a third party tool, like Database Workbench, that can do this for
you and even generator a change script. Check
El Viernes, 26 de Agosto de 2005 08:56, Gordon Bruce escribió:
If you have the 5.0.x version of MySQL then INFROMATION SCHEMA can give
you what you want. i.e.
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS a
INNER JOIN _SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS b
ON (a.column_name =
You could check the table DDL.
Or use a third party tool, like Database Workbench, that can do this
for
you and even generator a change script. Check www.upscene.com
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
Hmmm. No Linux version. Thank you anyway.
Nope, indeed. Serious answer: too
Alfredo,
If you are using MySQL 5.02 or later, here is an information_schema
query that will list table structure _differences_. The idea is to group
the UNION of rows in information_schema.columns for the two tables on
all information_schema.columns columns, then use HAVING to pick only
