SQLite Schema Information Metadata

Question

I need to get column names and their tables in a SQLite database. What I need is a resultset with 2 columns: table_name | column_name.

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Answer 1

There are ".tables" and ".schema [table_name]" commands which give kind of a separated version to the result you get from "select * from sqlite_master;"

There is also "pragma table_info([table_name]);" command to get a better result for parsing instead of a construction query:

sqlite> .tables
students
sqlite> .schema students
create table students(id INTEGER, name TEXT);
sqlite> pragma table_info(students);
0|id|INTEGER|0||0
1|name|TEXT|0||0

Hope, it helps to some extent...