Re: [PHP] MySQL DB Schema
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:23:52 -0800, you wrote: Greetings all, Is there an easy way to pull out the schema of a MySQL for viewing?? You want the tables and the relationships between them? Not easy to get the links because of the lack of foreign keys in MySQL. If you want a table, DESC tablename. If you want to capture the create statements for the tables, mysqldump -d databasename filename.sql -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] MySQL DB Schema
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Phillip S. Baker wrote: Is there an easy way to pull out the schema of a MySQL for viewing?? If you have access to the command line (either directly or via the system() function), try this: bash 2.05 $ mysqldump -t databasename --user=username --password Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] MySQL DB Schema
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 12:39 PM, David Otton wrote: You want the tables and the relationships between them? Not easy to get the links because of the lack of foreign keys in MySQL. You can add a comment to your table with the COMMENT modifier, which gives you 60 characters to describe your table's relationship to other tables. (In a table named registrants, you could have the comment registrants.user_id = users.user_id ) http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CREATE_TABLE.html Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
