[ensembl-dev] Database names? show databases;

[Maury Markowitz]

On 2012-06-18, at 1:53 PM, Erikjan wrote:
>> ...and I couldn't find such a thing. There's documentation on the tables, but
>> nothing on the actual DB names in the public server?
>> 
> 
> Perhaps "show databases" is what you're looking for?

Indeed, if one had an operational connection... it's a catch-22. And yes, this really does return an error:

ODBC Error: [MySQL][ODBC 5.1 Driver][mysqld-4.1.20-standard-log]No database selected