I believe it has to be like this:
create table column_list (MYTABLE_NAME DESC);
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-Original Message-
From: hong chen
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:32 PM
To: 'Alex Behrens'
Subject: RE: create tmp table of column list of a table for future use
No luck. Oracle and Sql Server have system tables to check.
mysql desc ATTRIBUTES;
Are you trying to create a new table with an existing table's structure only
? or with the structure and data? If you just wanna duplicate a table with
the data inside it you can use CREATE TABLE .. SELECT ... syntax. More info
is at: http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/R/CREATE_TABLE.html
IF you just
-Original Message-
From: hong chen
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:50 PM
To: 'Gurhan Ozen'
Subject: RE: create tmp table of column list of a table for future use
I am trying to check if a certain column exists before I try to select it from the
table.
in Oracle or Sql Server I would:
Problem is I'm accessing mysql through scripting against a table
that may or may not have ID field,
select count(*) from (desc ATTRIBUTES) where Field ='ID';
if count(*) 0 then
select ID from ATTRIBUTES;
else
do something else;
end if;
-Original Message-
From: Gurhan Ozen
