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I usually use SQLDeveloper to browse the database, but I couldn’t make it work with HSQLDB and I don’t know which tables are already created… I guess it’s a vendor-specific question and not plain SQL, but the point is: how can I see the tables so I can drop/alter them?
The ANSI SQL92 standard for querying database metadata is contained within the
INFORMATION_SCHEMAdata structures.I have no idea whether your database supports this or not, but try the following:
On further research, it appears that HSQLDB does support
INFORMATION_SCHEMA, but with slightly non-standard naming.All of the tables have
SYSTEM_*prepended to them, so the above example would readI have no means of testing this, and the answer was found on sourceforge.