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Re: Describe the column structure of a MySQL table

M D — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:54:33 -0000

waste

bsodmike — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:32:37 -0000

desc table_name

This works too :)

Ankit Singhania — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:26:09 -0000

Thanks a lot for this..

rhan121 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:23:51 -0000

Thanks Dude,
Thats what I was looking for all day :)

Niladri — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:38:45 -0000

What is the alternate command of describe ??

kpoman — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:09:41 -0000

another nice way to view a table is:

show create table table_name;

This one shown the keys, the table type, etc...