Re: Table timestamps? More specific control of "SHOW TABLE STATUS" command

2001-02-16 Thread Gerald L. Clark
Why don't you : select timestampfield from mytable order timestampfield decs limit 1 Jay Lawrence wrote: > > Atle, your suggestion is for the last time a record was updated. I am > interested in the entire table. > > The closest that I have seen thus far is: > SHOW TABLE STATUS > The Update

Re: Table timestamps? More specific control of "SHOW TABLE STATUS"command

2001-02-15 Thread Jan-Aage Bruvoll
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jay Lawrence wrote: > Atle, your suggestion is for the last time a record was updated. I am > interested in the entire table. A temporary workaround could be select max(timestamp) from sometable. Jan - Be

Re: Table timestamps? More specific control of "SHOW TABLE STATUS" command

2001-02-15 Thread Jay Lawrence
Atle, your suggestion is for the last time a record was updated. I am interested in the entire table. The closest that I have seen thus far is: SHOW TABLE STATUS The Update_time field is most likely what I am after. However I was hoping to do something more like select Update_time from