On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:00:32 -0500, Josh Trutwin wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:34:49 +0200 Jochem van Dieten wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:00:12 -0500, Josh Trutwin wrote: >>> >>> MySQL's command line interface and programming API also are nicer >>> for newer users. Why in the world do I need to remember to type >>> "\d" to show my tables? >> >> Why in the world do I need to remember SHOW TABLES? Why can't the >> standard information schema work? >> :-) > > Ah, because SHOW TABLES and "exit" or "quit" makes sense
SHOW TABLES does not make sense. How are you going to join the output of SHOW TABLES against the output of SHOW COLUMNS and SHOW INDEXES? SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES makes sense. And as for easy remembering: I prefer to remember just one standard, instead of the idiosyncracies of each product. Jochem -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
