Select data from "show tables" MySQL query

Is it possible to select from show tables in MySQL?

SELECT * FROM (SHOW TABLES) AS `my_tables`

Something along these lines, though the above does not work (on 5.0.51a, at least).

Solution 1:

I think you want SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES

See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/tables-table.html

Not that I know of, unless you select from INFORMATION_SCHEMA, as others have mentioned.

However, the SHOW command is pretty flexible, E.g.:

SHOW tables like '%s%'