show-create-statement-for-a-table.md

Show Create Statement For A Table

In MySQL, you can get a quick rundown of a table using describe users. An alternative to this approach is to have MySQL show the create statement for a table.

> show create table users\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: users
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `first_name` varchar(80) NOT NULL,
  `last_name` varchar(80) NOT NULL,
  `email` varchar(80) NOT NULL,
  `middle_initial` varchar(80) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `unique_email` (`email`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

This includes some additional information like primary key and index information. It is also a great way to study the SQL that it takes to create all the facets of a table.

See the show create table docs for more details.

h/t Jake Worth