o those of <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/columns-table.html">INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS</a></p>

<h3>EXAMPLES</h3>
<blockquote><pre>mysql&gt; SELECT * FROM common_schema.text_columns WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA IN ('sakila', 'world');
+--------------+----------------------------+----------------+--------------+--------------------+-------------------+
| TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME                 | COLUMN_NAME    | COLUMN_TYPE  | CHARACTER_SET_NAME | COLLATION_NAME    |
+--------------+--------------