Re: Best Perlish way to test if a mysql table exists?

in reply to Best Perlish way to test if a mysql table exists?

Well, you can use SHOW TABLES LIKE SQL-glob. Also, to my knowledge MySQL makes all the data about its database structure available in a system database (called mysql if I'm not mistaken), against which you could run queries.

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Re^2: Best Perlish way to test if a mysql table exists? by trammell (Priest) on Jan 31, 2005 at 00:19 UTC
Nah, the `mysql` table contains primarily user access config data. Update: Whoops, that should read `mysql` database.	[reply]

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