Question

These queries return correct results:

SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `users`
SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `teachers`

But this one generates an error

SHOW FULL COLUMNS IN  ('users', 'teachers')

I have tried single quote, double quote, back-quote and no quote and all fail. What am I doing wrong?

The error is this:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that 
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right 
syntax to use near '('users', 'teachers')' at line 1

Answer 1

Maybe this gives you what you’re after?

SELECT *
  FROM information_schema.columns
 WHERE table_name IN ('users', 'teachers')