See perldoc DBI view methods tables, table_info, column_info (meta data).
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:29:20PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > Is there some place online that lists the acceptible commands to > retrieve information about a database? For instance, I would like to be > able to ask an Access database which tables are available, then, within > each table, what the names of the columns are. I guess this is again > one of those annoying newbie questions that I ask. I bought a book, > ActivePerl Developers Guide, which is a pretty good reference (at least > for me), but their methods of accessing databases uses the > Win32::ODBC module instead of DBI. -- Thomas A. Lowery See DBI/FAQ http://www.xmlproj.com/cgi/fom.cgi
