Question

Basically I want to get the table names, and the field names for each table from the current database that is connected, nothing else.

Is this possible?

I know that SHOW TABLES FROM my_database gets you the table names, and SHOW COLUMNS FROM my_table will get you the fields, but that’s at least [1 x # of tables] queries and I get more information that I want 🙂

Answer 1

The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table has what you’re asking for.

SELECT table_name, column_name
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
    WHERE table_schema = 'YourDBName'
    ORDER BY table_name, ordinal_position