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What is the syntax in MySQL to get the column names of a table?
The syntax is as follows to get the column names of a table −
select column_name from information_schema.columns where table_schema='yourDatabaseName' and table_name=’yourTableName’;
Let us first create a table −
mysql> create table DemoTable
(
EmployeeId int,
EmployeeFirstName varchar(20),
EmployeeLastName varchar(20),
EmployeeAge int,
EmployeeCountryName varchar(40),
IsMarried tinyint(1),
isActive ENUM('ACTIVE','INACTIVE')
);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.65 sec)Following is the query to get the column names of a table. Here, we are fetching the column names of DemoTable −
mysql> select column_name from information_schema.columns where table_schema='web' and table_name='DemoTable';
This will produce the following output −
+---------------------+ | COLUMN_NAME | +---------------------+ | EmployeeId | | EmployeeFirstName | | EmployeeLastName | | EmployeeAge | | EmployeeCountryName | | IsMarried | | isActive | +---------------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 10-Oct-2019
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