Use of wildcards in mysql table name

Question

The table names in my mysql database are dynamically generated. Is there some way to select data from tables which have a name matching a pattern? I guess it will look like:

Answer 1

You can use INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES table to find tables you want, here is documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/tables-table.html . TABLES table has column NAME which represents names of tables. After finding table names you can run any sql queries you like.