How can I query for all the tables having a particular column name?

For writing MySQL query to get all the tables having a particular column name, we can use LIKE operator. It can be understood with the help of an example as follows −

Example

Following is the MySQL query to get all the tables having columns name ‘ID’ in it −

mysql> Select Column_name as 'ColumnName',Table_name As 'Tablename' FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%ID%' ORDER BY Tablename LIMIT 10; +-------------+---------------+ | ColumnName  | Tablename     | +-------------+---------------+ | id          | arena         | | id          | arena1        | | ID          | cars          | | ID          | COLLATIONS    | | ID          | copy_cars     | | COUNTRY_ID  | countries     | | REGION_ID   | countries     | | Customer_Id | customers     | | Customer_Id | customer_view | | id          | emp           | +-------------+---------------+ 10 rows in set, 0 warnings (0.15 sec)