Re: Knowing if a table exits

2001-06-22 Thread trogers
1. mysql> SHOW databases; 2. mysql> USE MessageNotification; 3. mysql> SHOW TABLES FROM MessageNotification; hth At 10:58 AM +0200 6/22/01, Tiwonge Nathan Kawonga wrote: >How can I query the database to know that a specific table exists in a >given database. > >for example my database is Messag

Re: Knowing if a table exits

2001-06-22 Thread Seth Northrop
desc does the trick from the console or via a query. Checking for the datafiles is another way if you are local to the server; though, that's not really a sane technique since you have to usually have the permissions of the database to see the datafiles.. privs you probably don't your script to

Knowing if a table exits

2001-06-22 Thread Tiwonge Nathan Kawonga
How can I query the database to know that a specific table exists in a given database. for example my database is MessageNotification and I want to know if Message_data table exists in this database. I am using Mysql++ to query the database. Thanks in advanced Tiwonge --