How to see all the tables in an HSQLDB database?

Question

I usually use SQLDeveloper to browse the database, but I couldn\'t make it work with HSQLDB and I don\'t know which tables are already created… I guess it\'s a vendor-specif

Answer 1

The ANSI SQL92 standard for querying database metadata is contained within the INFORMATION_SCHEMA data structures.

I have no idea whether your database supports this or not, but try the following:

SELECT *
FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES

On further research, it appears that HSQLDB does support INFORMATION_SCHEMA, but with slightly non-standard naming.

All of the tables have SYSTEM_* prepended to them, so the above example would read

SELECT *
FROM   INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_TABLES

I have no means of testing this, and the answer was found on sourceforge.