> AFAIK, you can't nest the DESCRIBE / SHOW commands as a subquery, or even *
> JOIN them for that matter.

That's sad

Why do you need to? This example just strips *
> some small unneeded data, which you could easily ignore in you application..
>

Yeah, sure, I can write a workaround, but I wondered if it is possible
to implement the feature on the direct SQL way. Would look nicer But
OK, if that's not possible I have to program the other way.