Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 1220

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Collation
The table's character set and collation.
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Checksum
The live checksum value (if any).
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Create_options
Extra options used with
is called are retained and the options reported here may differ from the active table settings and
options.
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Comment
The comment used when creating the table (or information as to why MySQL could not access the
table information).
In the table comment,
belongs. For a table located in the shared tablespace, this is the free space of the shared tablespace.
If you are using multiple tablespaces and the table has its own tablespace, the free space is for only
that table. Free space means the number of completely free 1MB extents minus a safety margin.
Even if free space displays as 0, it may be possible to insert rows as long as new extents need not be
allocated.
For
MEMORY
the actual amount of allocated memory. The allocation algorithm reserves memory in large amounts to
reduce the number of allocation operations.
Beginning with MySQL 5.0.3, for
values for the
are not taken into account. In addition, the number of replicas is now shown in the
(as number_of_replicas).
For views, all the fields displayed by
view name and
13.7.5.34.
SHOW TABLES
SHOW [FULL] TABLES [{FROM | IN} db_name]
[LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr]
SHOW TABLES
mysqlshow db_name
match. The
Section 19.18, "Extensions to
Matching performed by the
lower_case_table_names
Before MySQL 5.0.1, the output from
Beginning with MySQL 5.0.1, this statement also lists any views in the database. As of MySQL 5.0.2,
the modifier is supported such that
FULL
Values for the second column are
If you have no privileges for a base table or view, it does not show up in the output from
or
mysqlshow
13.7.5.35.
SHOW TRIGGERS
SHOW TRIGGERS [{FROM | IN} db_name]
[LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr]
CREATE
tables report the free space of the tablespace to which the table
InnoDB
tables, the Data_length, Max_data_length, and
NDBCLUSTER
and
Avg_row_length
says view.
Comment
Syntax
lists the non-TEMPORARY
command. The
clause can be given to select rows using more general conditions, as discussed in
WHERE
SHOW
clause is dependent on the setting of the
LIKE
[466]
BASE TABLE
db_name.
Syntax
Syntax
SHOW
TABLE. The original options supplied when
tables, the output of this statement shows appropriate
columns, with the exception that
Data_length
SHOW TABLE STATUS
tables in a given database. You can also get this list using the
[896] clause, if present, indicates which table names to
LIKE
Statements".
system variable.
contains a single column of table names.
SHOW TABLES
SHOW FULL TABLES
for a table and
1200
CREATE TABLE
Index_length
Comment
are except that
NULL Name
displays a second output column.
for a view.
VIEW
values approximate
columns
BLOB
column
indicates the
SHOW TABLES