Selecting Field Names in MySQL

On October 6, 2009, in Database, MySQL, by Rob

Selecting field names in MySQL is pretty easy, though it's not quite like the SELECT syntax we're all used to:

SHOW COLUMNS FROM TABLE;

To select all fields that start with 'customer' we extend that a little bit, note the wild card to select all fields that start with 'customer'.

SHOW COLUMNS FROM TABLE LIKE 'customer%';
 

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