title: Laravel 4 show table status statement
body: <p>I'm having trouble running a <code>SHOW</code> query using laravel, current attempts: </p>
  
  <pre><code> $status = DB::statement('SHOW TABLE status FROM yqueue LIKE ' . $table_name);
  
   $status = DB::statement('SHOW TABLE status LIKE ' . $table_name);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have also tried to use <code>unprepared</code> but same issue;</p>
  
  <pre><code>$status =  DB::unprepared('SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM testdb like ' . $table_name);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I haven't been able to find any example of<code>SHOW</code> being used in Laravel.</p>
  
  <p>the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code> SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I'm doing wrong?,  any help is appreciated. </p>