在MySQL中,我知道我可以在数据库中列出表:

SHOW TABLES

但是,我想将这些表名插入到另一个表中,例如:

INSERT INTO metadata(table_name) SHOW TABLES /* does not work */

是否有一种方法可以使用标准的SELECT语句来获取表名,比如:

INSERT INTO metadata(table_name) SELECT name FROM table_names /* what should table_names be? */

当前回答

Try:

select * from information_schema.tables

参见:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-schema.html

其他回答

我认为您可以从INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES中获得所需的数据。

你可以在这里找到更多信息:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/tables-table.html

插入、更新和删除操作如下:

$teste = array('LOW_PRIORITY', 'DELAYED', 'HIGH_PRIORITY', 'IGNORE', 'INTO', 'INSERT', 'UPDATE', 'DELETE', 'QUICK', 'FROM');
$teste1 = array("\t", "\n", "\r", "\0", "\x0B");
$strsql = trim(str_ireplace($teste1, ' ', str_ireplace($teste, '', $strsql)));
$nomeTabela = substr($strsql, 0, strpos($strsql, ' '));

print($nomeTabela);
exit;

还有一种更简单的方法来获取表名

SHOW TABLES FROM <database_name>
SELECT table_name 
FROM information_schema.tables 
WHERE table_schema = 'DATABASE'

除了使用INFORMATION_SCHEMA表外,要使用SHOW TABLES插入到表中,还需要使用以下命令

<?php
 $sql = "SHOW TABLES FROM $dbname";
 $result = mysql_query($sql);
 $arrayCount = 0
 while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
  $tableNames[$arrayCount] = $row[0];
  $arrayCount++; //only do this to make sure it starts at index 0
 }
 foreach ($tableNames as &$name {
  $query = "INSERT INTO metadata (table_name) VALUES ('".$name."')";
  mysql_query($query);
 }
?>