In relational databases, the Information Schema is an ANSI standard set of read-only views which provide information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database. It can be used as a source of the information which some databases make available through non-standard commands, such as the SHOW command of MySQL and the DESCRIBE command of Oracle.

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  • In relational databases, the Information Schema is an ANSI standard set of read-only views which provide information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database. It can be used as a source of the information which some databases make available through non-standard commands, such as the SHOW command of MySQL and the DESCRIBE command of Oracle. => select count(table_name) from information_schema.tables; count ------- 99 (1 row) => select column_name, data_type, column_default, is_nullable from information_schema.columns where table_name='alpha'; column_name | data_type | column_default | is_nullable -------------+-----------+----------------+------------- foo | integer | | YES bar | character | | YES (2 rows) => select * from information_schema.information_schema_catalog_name; catalog_name -------------- johnd (1 row) (en)
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  • In relational databases, the Information Schema is an ANSI standard set of read-only views which provide information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database. It can be used as a source of the information which some databases make available through non-standard commands, such as the SHOW command of MySQL and the DESCRIBE command of Oracle. (en)
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  • Information Schema (en)
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