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How to View Tables that Reference a Target Table in MySQL
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-- USAGE | |
-- call show_references_to('my_much_referenced_table') \G | |
DELIMITER // | |
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE show_references_to( | |
my_table_name VARCHAR(255) | |
-- , my_column_name VARCHAR(255) | |
) | |
BEGIN | |
SELECT | |
TABLE_NAME, | |
COLUMN_NAME, | |
CONSTRAINT_NAME, | |
REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME, | |
REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAME | |
FROM | |
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE | |
WHERE | |
REFERENCED_TABLE_SCHEMA = (SELECT DATABASE()) | |
AND REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME = my_table_name | |
-- AND REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAME = my_column_name | |
; | |
END | |
// | |
DELIMITER ; | |
-- REFERENCES | |
-- https://stackoverflow.com/a/201678/151312 |
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