Creating a simple PHP SQL database extractor. Example: Fetching data from X.X.X.X is the ip address of the db server.



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If you do not know tables you can have the db describe them using the following command:

Definition: The describe SQL command is used to list all of the fields in a table and the data format of each field. 

It is phrased as: describe [TableName];

Examples: This would list all of the fields and their formats for the table called 'Colors':

describe Colors;

DESCRIBE ;

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SELECT column_name,column_type,is_nullable,column_key,col  umn_default,extra FROM information_schema.COLUMNS WHERE
table_schema='' AND table_name=''


SELECT table_name,ordinal_position,column_name,data_type,  is_nullable,character_maximum_length FROM
information_schema.COLUMNS WHERE table_name LIKE '%TABLENAME%'
ORDER BY ordinal_position

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