Subject Re: [firebird-python] cur.execute("show tables") giving error
Author Uwe Grauer
asforza2sell wrote:
> when I try to do a "show tables" or a "show table X" command from the
> execute method in kinterbasd, I get the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> kinterbasdb.ProgrammingError: (-104, 'isc_dsql_prepare: \n Dynamic
> SQL Error\n
> SQL error code = -104\n Token unknown - line 1, char 1\n show')
>
> Should this command work for me? Other simple sql statements work,
> like "select" and "insert". What am I doing wrong?
>
> thanks,
> allen
>
"show tables" isn't a valid statement in Firebird.
Maybe you should read some documentation first.

Uwe