DESCRIBE

You may infer from its namesake that DESCRIBE will be used to "describe" a table. But-- what does the term "describe a table" really mean?

Tables often contain data of different types. The DESCRIBE statement shows a column's name, type, and whether there are null values or not. The syntax is as follows:

1DESCRIBE TableName;

Another way to accomplish this is:

1DESC TableName;

Let's try to describe the table Class from before.

1DESC Class;

The above line of code will generate the following output:

1StudentID	       int(11)	            YES NULL	
2StudentName	     varchar(255)	        YES	NULL	
3CoursesEnrolled	 varchar(255)	        YES	NULL	
4Attendance	     int(11)	            YES	NULL