辛星mysql_辛星浅谈mysql中的元数据

首先解释一下什么是元数据，所谓元数据，就是表示数据的数据，这些数据五花八门，总之，只要不是我们存储到数据库里的数据，大多都可以理解为元数据。那么我们如何来获取这些元数据呢？

总的来说，有三种思路，第一种，各种show，第二种，各种select，第三种，是mysql的命令行下的命令，不是sql语句。

我们首先看第一种，这里我列举一下大家比较熟悉的show语句的用法，其实咱们经常用show来查看信息，比如：

show databases;

show tales;

show create table 表名;

show index from 表名;

....等等

第二种就是通过select来从mysql数据库或者information_schema数据库中提取相关信息，比如可以从tables这个表里面的free_data字段来查看数据碎片的相关信息，这里我上一篇博文已经介绍过了，这里就不废话了。

第三种就是通过mysql自带的一些命令来查看，这个需要咱们的用户名和密码的，下面是我查看相应元数据的代码，希望能帮到您：

Microsoft Windows [版本 6.1.7601]

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C:\Users\Administrator>mysqlshow -u root -proot

mysqlshow: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.

+--------------------+

| Databases |

+--------------------+

| information_schema |

| mysql |

| performance_schema |

| test |

| xinxing |

+--------------------+

C:\Users\Administrator>mysqlshow -u root -proot xinxing

mysqlshow: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.

Database: xinxing

+--------+

| Tables |

+--------+

| xin |

+--------+

C:\Users\Administrator>mysqlshow -u root -proot --status xinxing

mysqlshow: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.

Database: xinxing

+------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-------------------+--------------+-------

----+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------+----------+---

-------------+---------+

| Name | Engine | Version | Row_format | Rows | Avg_row_length | Data_length | Max_data_length | Index_length | Data_f

ree | Auto_increment | Create_time | Update_time | Check_time | Collation | Checksum | Cr

eate_options | Comment |

+------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-------------------+--------------+-------

----+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------+----------+---

-------------+---------+

| xin | MyISAM | 10 | Fixed | 3 | 121 | 363 | 34058472181989375 | 1024 | 0

| | 2014-08-25 13:19:02 | 2014-08-25 13:41:25 | 2014-08-25 13:41:25 | utf8_general_ci | |

| |

+------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+-------------+-------------------+--------------+-------

----+----------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------+----------+---

-------------+---------+

C:\Users\Administrator>

下面是我用mysqldump来查看表结构的一些操作，希望对您有用：

C:\Users\Administrator>mysqldump -u root -proot --no-data xinxing xin

mysqldump: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.

-- MySQL dump 10.13 Distrib 5.7.3-m13, for Win64 (x86_64)

--

-- Host: localhost Database: xinxing

-- ------------------------------------------------------

-- Server version 5.7.3-m13

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;

/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;

/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;

/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;

/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;

/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;

/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

--

-- Table structure for table `xin`

--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `xin`;

/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client = @@character_set_client */;

/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;

CREATE TABLE `xin` (

`c` char(40) DEFAULT NULL

) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;

/*!40103 SET [email protected]_TIME_ZONE */;

/*!40101 SET [email protected]_SQL_MODE */;

/*!40014 SET [email protected]_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;

/*!40014 SET [email protected]_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;

/*!40101 SET [email protected]_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;

/*!40101 SET [email protected]_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;

/*!40101 SET [email protected]_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;

/*!40111 SET [email protected]_SQL_NOTES */;

-- Dump completed on 2014-08-25 20:49:08

辛星，期待您的关注。。

原文：http://blog.csdn.net/xinguimeng/article/details/38825899