Listing Available MySQL Databases and Tables

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To determine what databases and tables are stored in your MySQL database, log in using the mysql client:

[usr-1@srv-1 ~]$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 6 to server version: 4.1.12
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql>


Use the show databases command to list the databases:

mysql> show databases;
+-----------+
| Database |
+-----------+
| arewedown |
| mysql |
| test |
+-----------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>


If you want to list the tables in one of the databases, connect to it and use the show tables command:

mysql> connect mysql;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Connection id: 10
Current database: mysql
mysql> show tables;
+---------------------------+
| Tables_in_mysql |
+---------------------------+
| columns_priv |
| db |
| func |
| help_category |
| help_keyword |
| help_relation |
| help_topic |
| host |
| tables_priv |
| time_zone |
| time_zone_leap_second |
| time_zone_name |
| time_zone_transition |
| time_zone_transition_type |
| user |
+---------------------------+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>