Re: where has the COLUMNS table disappeared?

Searched forums but no joy... hope it's ok to post here.

I just upgraded to v 1.3.9h from 1.3.8. Manually copying the SQL data. New install as standard. But being careful not to lose data, I am going through thousands of lines of SQL code. Now:

1. It seems the main database contains just 93 tables (information_schema excluded). Is that normal? I could have sworn there were more.

2. MORE IMPORTANTLY:
   I exported the SQL from 1.3.8 as you know. There were some 800 lines of code which do not seem to appear when I dump the data from the v1.3.9h. :shocking: They are as below. Please does anyone know if this should be cause for concern?

Please note - I used the prefix meromero_ for the tables.

Thanks all!!

The code:

-- Dumping data for table `COLUMNS`
--

INSERT INTO `COLUMNS` (`TABLE_CATALOG`, `TABLE_SCHEMA`, `TABLE_NAME`, `COLUMN_NAME`, `ORDINAL_POSITION`, `COLUMN_DEFAULT`, `IS_NULLABLE`, `DATA_TYPE`, `CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH`, `CHARACTER_OCTET_LENGTH`, `NUMERIC_PRECISION`, `NUMERIC_SCALE`, `CHARACTER_SET_NAME`, `COLLATION_NAME`, `COLUMN_TYPE`, `COLUMN_KEY`, `EXTRA`, `PRIVILEGES`, `COLUMN_COMMENT`) VALUES
(NULL, 'meromero_shopcart', 'mm_address_book', 'address_book_id', 1, NULL, 'NO', 'int', NULL, NULL, 10, 0, NULL, NULL, 'int(11)', 'PRI', 'auto_increment', 'select,insert,update', ''),
(NULL, 'meromero_shopcart', 'mm_address_book', 'customers_id', 2, '0', 'NO', 'int', NULL, NULL, 10, 0, NULL, NULL, 'int(11)', 'MUL', '', 'select,insert,update', ''),

...

(NULL, 'meromero_shopcart', 'mm_address_format', 'address_format', 2, '', 'NO', 'varchar', 128, 384, NULL, NULL, 'utf8', 'utf8_general_ci', 'varchar(128)', '', '', 'select,insert,update', ''),

...

(NULL, 'meromero_shopcart', 'mm_zones_to_geo_zones', 'date_added', 6, '0001-01-01 00:00:00', 'NO', 'datetime', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 'datetime', '', '', 'select,insert,update', '');

COLUMNS is not a table in 1.3.8 or 1.3.9
all ZenCart tables are lower case so this must be from some 3rd party addon