Bug #11984 It would be nice to be able to use "DESCRIBE" on more than one table at once

• Submitted: 16 Jul 2005 19:26
• Modified: 14 Jun 2013 15:30
• Reporter: Aaron Gussman
• Status: Verified
• Category: MySQL Server: DML
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[16 Jul 2005 19:26] Aaron Gussman

Description:
DESCRIBE ALL to describe all the tables in a database and a DESCRIBE LIKE '%FOO%' would be really nice.  Similar to how you can do it with SHOW TABLES.

How to repeat:
AFAIK, The above syntax does not exist in MySQL.

Suggested fix:
Please add it :)