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SHOW syntax. Get information about tables, columns...

	SHOW DATABASES [LIKE wild]
or 	SHOW TABLES [FROM database] [LIKE wild]
or	SHOW COLUMNS FROM table [FROM database] [LIKE wild]
or	SHOW INDEX FROM table [FROM database]
or	SHOW STATUS
or	SHOW VARIABLES [LIKE wild]

Gives information about databases, tables or columns. If the LIKE wild part is used the wild string is a normal SQL wildcard (with % and _). FIELDS may be used as an alias for COLUMNS and KEYS may be used as an alias for INDEXES.

STATUS gives status information from the server like mysqladmin status). The output may differ from the following:

Uptime Running_threads Questions Reloads Open_tables
119 1 4 1 3
VARIABLES shows the values of the some of MySQL system variables. Most of these variables can be changed by different options to mysqld!


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