RE: Creation date

2009-05-05 Thread Jerry Schwartz
Thanks, I knew it had to be something simple. Now I can clean out my "save this in case you make a mistake" tables. >-Original Message- >From: Steve Edberg [mailto:sbedb...@ucdavis.edu] >Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:00 AM >To: Jerry Schwartz; mysql@lists.mysql.com

RE: Creation date

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
not change. Andrew -Original Message- From: Jim Lyons [mailto:jlyons4...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 May 2009 16:38 To: Jerry Schwartz Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Creation date I would have said to look at the creation date of the .frn file, but there is also a field called "create

Re: Creation date

2009-05-05 Thread Jim Lyons
I would have said to look at the creation date of the .frn file, but there is also a field called "create date" in the "show table status" command and the 2 dates often differ. Anyone know why they do? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > At the risk of getting spanked for not

RE: Creation date

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Gainty
that is one weird opening statement select * from information_schema.tables where table_name='DATABASE_NAME.TABLENAME'; Martin "May the Schwartz be with you" -- Spaceballs __ Disclaimer and Confidentiality/Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note

Re: Creation date

2009-05-05 Thread Steve Edberg
At 10:28 AM -0400 5/5/09, Jerry Schwartz wrote: At the risk of getting spanked for not finding this in the documentation, I'm asking a simple question: Can I tell when a table was created? Try show table status or select table_name,create_time from information_schema.tables