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SHOW CREATE VIEW
Shows the CREATE VIEW statement that was used to create the view.
Syntax
SHOW CREATE VIEW view_name
Arguments
view_name
The name of the view.
Remarks
- The
Create Viewfield from the output can be used to recreate the view. - The output also contains information on
character_set_clientandcollation_connection. See List of Engine Variables for more information.
Example
The following example displays the output of SHOW CREATE VIEW.
CREATE VIEW count AS SELECT COUNT(*) FROM square WHERE num > 5;
SHOW CREATE VIEW count;
****
+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| View | Create View | character_set_client | collation_connection |
+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| count | CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`%` SCHEMA_BINDING=OFF VIEW `count` AS SELECT COUNT(*) AS `COUNT(*)` FROM `square` as `square` WHERE (`square`.`num` > 0) | utf8 | utf8_general_ci |
+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
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