any way to view ALTER TABLE after its been executed? -MySQL

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Published on 2010-02-24T18:43:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 21:04 UTC
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In the same way SHOW CREATE TABLE tblname; brings back what was previously executed, is there anyway to view the SQL of an ALTER TABLE query? please help?

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