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Old 02-28-2008, 11:29 AM
Kees Nuyt
 
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On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:45:47 -0700, Occidental
<Occidental@comcast.net> wrote:

> ..ie the column name, definitions (varchar(100) etc). The most
>obvious way is to parse the output from describe table_name. Is there
>an easier way?

It all depends on what you want to do.
Parsing the output from describe table_name would work but
might not be the easiest way. Have a look at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/...on-schema.html
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