How to select an entire database and display all the information

Question

Is it possible to select all the tables from a database (not knowing their names) and displaying them? My friend has a mysql server but he doesn't have phpMyAdmin installed and he's begging me to transfer all his php-fusion accounts to his new WordPress blog. He doesn't understand a thing with mysql... Anyone got an idea?

Answer 1

Use the SHOW and DESCRIBE statements. That's all phpMyAdmin is doing in the code. Your SQL user should have privileges.

List all tables:

SHOW tables;

List table definition:

DESCRIBE table_name;

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