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
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