How does one retrieve all table names from a database...

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June 7th, 2000, 03:07 PM

TerryS999

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I'm trying, through an SQL statement, to retrieve table names and column names from a selected database.

Something like...

**PSUEDO CODE**

GET all_table_names FROM $db

->returns(table1, table2, table3, table4)

**PSUEDO CODE**

Is there a way of doing this?

Thanks,

Terry Scott

June 7th, 2000, 03:14 PM

scollo

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MySQL has a

show tables;

statement.

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