The STATISTICS table provides
information about table indexes.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
Name |
SHOW
Name |
Remarks |
TABLE_CATALOG |
def |
|
TABLE_SCHEMA |
= Database | |
TABLE_NAME |
Table |
|
NON_UNIQUE |
Non_unique |
|
INDEX_SCHEMA |
= Database | |
INDEX_NAME |
Key_name |
|
SEQ_IN_INDEX |
Seq_in_index |
|
COLUMN_NAME |
Column_name |
|
COLLATION |
Collation |
|
CARDINALITY |
Cardinality |
|
SUB_PART |
Sub_part |
MySQL extension |
PACKED |
Packed |
MySQL extension |
NULLABLE |
Null |
MySQL extension |
INDEX_TYPE |
Index_type |
MySQL extension |
COMMENT |
Comment |
MySQL extension |
Notes:
There is no standard table for indexes. The preceding list is
similar to what SQL Server 2000 returns for
sp_statistics, except that we replaced the
name QUALIFIER with
CATALOG and we replaced the name
OWNER with SCHEMA.
Clearly, the preceding table and the output from
SHOW INDEX are derived from the
same parent. So the correlation is already close.
The following statements are equivalent:
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.STATISTICS WHERE table_name = 'tbl_name' AND table_schema = 'db_name' SHOW INDEX FROMtbl_nameFROMdb_name

User Comments
Quite handy if you want to view all indices in a database:
SELECT table_name, index_name, column_name FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.STATISTICS WHERE table_schema = 'dbname' ORDER BY table_name, index_name, seq_in_index
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