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  • Committer: Brian Aker
  • Date: 2010-10-27 20:22:26 UTC
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Obtaining Information on the Contents of the Database
 
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Drizzle provides two schema per catalog that contain data about the contents
 
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of the schema, the state of the database instance, and other additional
 
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information that might be useful to a user. In addition Drizzle supports
 
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"SHOW" commands, and DESCRIBE, which can be used by a user to gain
 
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additional information.
 
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The INFORMATION_SCHEMA only contains data that is the SQL standard requires.
 
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More information can be gained by the tables found in the DATA_DICTIONARY
 
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schema.
 
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.. toctree::
 
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   :maxdepth: 2
 
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   data_dictionary
 
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   information_schema
 
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   show
 
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   describe
 
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