1,desc tablename;
mysql>
use information_schema;
Database changed
mysql> select * from columns where table_name='authors';
+---------------+--------------+------------+-------------+------------------+----------------+-------------+-----------+--------------------------+------------------------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+
| TABLE_CATALOG | TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME | COLUMN_NAME | ORDINAL_POSITION | COLUMN_DEFAULT | IS_NULLABLE | DATA_TYPE | CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH | CHARACTER_OCTET_LENGTH | NUMERIC_PRECISION | NUMERIC_SCALE | CHARACTER_SET_NAME | COLLATION_NAME | COLUMN_TYPE
| COLUMN_KEY | EXTRA | PRIVILEGES | COLUMN_COMMENT |
+---------------+--------------+------------+-------------+------------------+----------------+-------------+-----------+--------------------------+------------------------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+
| def | zqad | authors | id | 1 | NULL | NO | int | NULL | NULL | 10 | 0 | NULL | NULL | int(11)
| PRI | auto_increment | select,insert,update,references | |
| def | zqad | authors | email | 2 | NULL | NO | varchar | 100 | 300 | NULL | NULL | utf8 | utf8_general_ci | varchar(100)
| UNI | | select,insert,update,references | |
| def | zqad | authors | name | 3 | NULL | NO | varchar | 100 | 300 | NULL | NULL | utf8 | utf8_general_ci | varchar(100)
| | | select,insert,update,references | |
+---------------+--------------+------------+-------------+------------------+----------------+-------------+-----------+--------------------------+------------------------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+
3 rows in set