How to get a list of MySQL views?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to list all views in a database.

Initially I found and tried an answer on the MySQL forums:

SELECT table_name
FROM information         


        

Answer 1

This will work.

    USE INFORMATION_SCHEMA;
    SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME
    FROM information_schema.tables
    WHERE TABLE_TYPE LIKE 'VIEW';

Answer 2

If you created any view in Mysql databases then you can simply see it as you see your all tables in your particular database.

write:

--mysql> SHOW TABLES;

you will see list of tables and views of your database.

Answer 3

The error your seeing is probably due to a non-MySQL created directory in MySQL's data directory. MySQL maps the database structure pretty directly onto the file system, databases are mapped to directories and tables are files in those directories.

The name of the non-working database looks suspiciously like someone has copied the mysql database directory to a backup at some point and left it in MySQL's data directory. This isn't a problem as long as you don't try and use the database for anything. Unfortunately the information schema scans all of the databases it finds and finds that this one isn't a real database and gets upset.

The solution is to find the mysql.bak directory on the hard disk and move it well away from MySQL.