How can we see the list of views stored in a particular MySQL database?


With the help of following queries, we can see the list of views stored in a particular database. We are using the database named ‘query’ here.

mysql> SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM information_schema.`TABLES` WHERE TABLE_TYPE LIKE'view' AND TABLE_SCHEMA LIKE 'query';
+-----------------------------+
| TABLE_NAME                  |
+-----------------------------+
| customer_view               |
| first_view                  |
| info                        |
| info_less                   |
| view_detail                 |
| view_student_detail         |
| view_student_detail_columns |
+-----------------------------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> SHOW FULL TABLES IN query WHERE TABLE_TYPE LIKE 'VIEW';
+-----------------------------+------------+
| Tables_in_query             | Table_type |
+-----------------------------+------------+
| customer_view               | VIEW       |
| first_view                  | VIEW       |
| info                        | VIEW       |
| info_less                   | VIEW       |
| view_detail                 | VIEW       |
| view_student_detail         | VIEW       |
| view_student_detail_columns | VIEW       |
+-----------------------------+------------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME
    -> FROM information_schema.tables
    -> WHERE TABLE_TYPE LIKE 'VIEW'AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'query';
+--------------+-----------------------------+
| TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME                  |
+--------------+-----------------------------+
| query        | customer_view               |
| query        | first_view                  |
| query        | info                        |
| query        | info_less                   |
| query        | view_detail                 |
| query        | view_student_detail         |
| query        | view_student_detail_columns |
+--------------+-----------------------------+
7 rows in set (0.05 sec)

Updated on: 17-Feb-2020

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