Rutledge,
Monday, May 13, 2002, 6:25:42 PM, you wrote:
Reoen> Sorry to bother the list with the mundane, but I have searched the
Reoen> entire MySQL manual and can't find the answer. Is there a way to output
Reoen> the table description (using DESCRIBE) into an OUTFILE like you can for
Reoen> SELECT query statements? Thanks! Aaron
1. You can use mysqldump with "--no-data" option
mysqldump --no-data database_name table_name > /tmp/structure.sql
This way gives you dump file with table structure. Afterward you can re-create
table using dump file.
2. Use MySQL in batch mode
mysql database_name -e "desc table_name" > /tmp/desc.sql
In this case you get output of the DESCRIBE statement in the file.
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