15.7.7 SHOW Statements

15.7.7.1 SHOW BINARY LOGS Statement

15.7.7.2 SHOW BINLOG EVENTS Statement

15.7.7.3 SHOW CHARACTER SET Statement

15.7.7.4 SHOW COLLATION Statement

15.7.7.5 SHOW COLUMNS Statement

15.7.7.6 SHOW CREATE DATABASE Statement

15.7.7.7 SHOW CREATE EVENT Statement

15.7.7.8 SHOW CREATE FUNCTION Statement

15.7.7.9 SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE Statement

15.7.7.10 SHOW CREATE TABLE Statement

15.7.7.11 SHOW CREATE TRIGGER Statement

15.7.7.12 SHOW CREATE USER Statement

15.7.7.13 SHOW CREATE VIEW Statement

15.7.7.14 SHOW DATABASES Statement

15.7.7.15 SHOW ENGINE Statement

15.7.7.16 SHOW ENGINES Statement

15.7.7.17 SHOW ERRORS Statement

15.7.7.18 SHOW EVENTS Statement

15.7.7.19 SHOW FUNCTION CODE Statement

15.7.7.20 SHOW FUNCTION STATUS Statement

15.7.7.21 SHOW GRANTS Statement

15.7.7.22 SHOW INDEX Statement

15.7.7.23 SHOW MASTER STATUS Statement

15.7.7.24 SHOW OPEN TABLES Statement

15.7.7.25 SHOW PLUGINS Statement

15.7.7.26 SHOW PRIVILEGES Statement

15.7.7.27 SHOW PROCEDURE CODE Statement

15.7.7.28 SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS Statement

15.7.7.29 SHOW PROCESSLIST Statement

15.7.7.30 SHOW PROFILE Statement

15.7.7.31 SHOW PROFILES Statement

15.7.7.32 SHOW RELAYLOG EVENTS Statement

15.7.7.33 SHOW REPLICAS Statement

15.7.7.34 SHOW SLAVE HOSTS | SHOW REPLICAS Statement

15.7.7.35 SHOW REPLICA STATUS Statement

15.7.7.36 SHOW SLAVE | REPLICA STATUS Statement

15.7.7.37 SHOW STATUS Statement

15.7.7.38 SHOW TABLE STATUS Statement

15.7.7.39 SHOW TABLES Statement

15.7.7.40 SHOW TRIGGERS Statement

15.7.7.41 SHOW VARIABLES Statement

15.7.7.42 SHOW WARNINGS Statement

SHOW has many forms that provide information about databases, tables, columns, or status information about the server. This section describes those following:

SHOW {BINARY | MASTER} LOGS
SHOW BINLOG EVENTS [IN 'log_name'] [FROM pos] [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW {CHARACTER SET | CHARSET} [like_or_where]
SHOW COLLATION [like_or_where]
SHOW [FULL] COLUMNS FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW CREATE DATABASE db_name
SHOW CREATE EVENT event_name
SHOW CREATE FUNCTION func_name
SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE proc_name
SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl_name
SHOW CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
SHOW CREATE VIEW view_name
SHOW DATABASES [like_or_where]
SHOW ENGINE engine_name {STATUS | MUTEX}
SHOW [STORAGE] ENGINES
SHOW ERRORS [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW EVENTS
SHOW FUNCTION CODE func_name
SHOW FUNCTION STATUS [like_or_where]
SHOW GRANTS FOR user
SHOW INDEX FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name]
SHOW MASTER STATUS
SHOW OPEN TABLES [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW PLUGINS
SHOW PROCEDURE CODE proc_name
SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS [like_or_where]
SHOW PRIVILEGES
SHOW [FULL] PROCESSLIST
SHOW PROFILE [types] [FOR QUERY n] [OFFSET n] [LIMIT n]
SHOW PROFILES
SHOW RELAYLOG EVENTS [IN 'log_name'] [FROM pos] [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW {REPLICAS | SLAVE HOSTS}
SHOW {REPLICA | SLAVE} STATUS [FOR CHANNEL channel]
SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] STATUS [like_or_where]
SHOW TABLE STATUS [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW [FULL] TABLES [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW TRIGGERS [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] VARIABLES [like_or_where]
SHOW WARNINGS [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]

like_or_where: {
    LIKE 'pattern'
  | WHERE expr
}

If the syntax for a given SHOW statement includes a LIKE 'pattern' part, 'pattern' is a string that can contain the SQL % and _ wildcard characters. The pattern is useful for restricting statement output to matching values.

Several SHOW statements also accept a WHERE clause that provides more flexibility in specifying which rows to display. See Section 28.8, “Extensions to SHOW Statements”.

In SHOW statement results, user names and host names are quoted using backticks (`).

Many MySQL APIs (such as PHP) enable you to treat the result returned from a SHOW statement as you would a result set from a SELECT; see Chapter 31, Connectors and APIs, or your API documentation for more information. In addition, you can work in SQL with results from queries on tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database, which you cannot easily do with results from SHOW statements. See Chapter 28, INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables.