这个表(视图)是在MySQL5以后的才有的,现在MySQL4应该是很少了,所以都围绕着MySQL5来讲解,information_schema是用于存储数据库元数据的表,它保存了数据库名,表名,列名等信息,让我们从爆破表名到了可以直接查询。
mysql> show tables; +---------------------------------------+ | Tables_in_information_schema | +---------------------------------------+ | CHARACTER_SETS | | COLLATIONS | | COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY | | COLUMNS | | COLUMN_PRIVILEGES | | ENGINES | | EVENTS | | FILES | | GLOBAL_STATUS | | GLOBAL_VARIABLES | | KEY_COLUMN_USAGE | | OPTIMIZER_TRACE | | PARAMETERS | | PARTITIONS | | PLUGINS | | PROCESSLIST | | PROFILING | | REFERENTIAL_ConSTRAINTS | | ROUTINES | | SCHEMATA | | SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES | | SESSION_STATUS | | SESSION_VARIABLES | | STATISTICS | | TABLES | | TABLESPACES | | TABLE_ConSTRAINTS | | TABLE_PRIVILEGES | | TRIGGERS | | USER_PRIVILEGES | | VIEWS | | INNODB_LOCKS | | INNODB_TRX | | INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES | | INNODB_LOCK_WAITS | | INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS | | INNODB_CMP | | INNODB_METRICS | | INNODB_CMP_RESET | | INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX | | INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET | | INNODB_FT_DELETeD | | INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU | | INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN | | INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS | | INNODB_SYS_INDEXES | | INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD | | INNODB_SYS_FIELDS | | INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET | | INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE | | INNODB_CMPMEM | | INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE | | INNODB_FT_BEING_DELETED | | INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES | | INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE | | INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS | | INNODB_SYS_TABLES | | INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS | | INNODB_FT_ConFIG | +---------------------------------------+ 59 rows in set (0.00 sec)
我们经常用到的几个表
SCHEMATA表 : 提供了当前mysql实例中所有数据库的信息。
TABLES 表 : 提供了关于数据库中的表的信息。
COLUMNS 表 :提供了表中的列信息
SCHEMATA:
mysql> select * from information_schema.schemata; +--------------+--------------------+----------------------------+------------------------+----------+ | CATALOG_NAME | SCHEMA_NAME | DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME | DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME | SQL_PATH | +--------------+--------------------+----------------------------+------------------------+----------+ | def | information_schema | utf8 | utf8_general_ci | NULL | | def | mysql | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | NULL | | def | mysqltest | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | NULL | | def | performance_schema | utf8 | utf8_general_ci | NULL | +--------------+--------------------+----------------------------+------------------------+----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
TABLES:
mysql> select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_schema=0x6D7973716C74657374; //注意这里不用引号就要把数据库名转为16进制 +------------+ | table_name | +------------+ | admin | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
COLUMNS:
mysql> select column_name from information_schema.columns where table_name=0x61646D696E; +-------------+ | column_name | +-------------+ | id | | username | | password | +-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
我们前面说过information_schema储存的是所有数据库的信息,假如我的数据库 mysqltest1 mysqltest2 都存在admin表的话 它都会显示出来
mysql> select column_name from information_schema.columns where table_name=0x61646D696E; +-------------+ | column_name | +-------------+ | id | | username | | password | | id | | user | | pass | +-------------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
所以要指定数据库
mysql> select column_name from information_schema.columns where table_name=0x61646D696E and table_schema=0x6D7973716C74657374; +-------------+ | column_name | +-------------+ | id | | username | | password | +-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)0x01 MySQL
user 表保存的用户密码 和host等等信息
mysql> select user,password from user; +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | user | password | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | root | *81F5E21E35407D884A6CD4A731AEBFB6AF209E1B | | root | *81F5E21E35407D884A6CD4A731AEBFB6AF209E1B | | root | *81F5E21E35407D884A6CD4A731AEBFB6AF209E1B | | root | *81F5E21E35407D884A6CD4A731AEBFB6AF209E1B | | debian-sys-maint | *764E40048679D21BBB07CB8DDD18465359DAB4CA | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)0x02 文末 本文如有错误,请及时提醒,避免误导他人



