Chapter 9. Obtaining and Using Metadata

Section 9.0.  Introduction

Recipe 9.1.  Obtaining the Number of Rows Affected by a Statement

Recipe 9.2.  Obtaining Result Set Metadata

Recipe 9.3.  Determining Whether a Statement Produced a Result Set

Recipe 9.4.  Using Metadata to Format Query Output

Recipe 9.5.  Listing or Checking Existence of Databases or Tables

Recipe 9.6.  Accessing Table Column Definitions

Recipe 9.7.  Getting ENUM and SET Column Information

Recipe 9.8.  Using Table Structure Information in Applications

Recipe 9.9.  Getting Server Metadata

Recipe 9.10.  Writing Applications That Adapt to the MySQL Server Version

Recipe 9.11.  Determining the Default Database

Recipe 9.12.  Monitoring the MySQL Server

Recipe 9.13.  Determining Which Storage Engines the Server Supports