diff --git a/tbl_alter.php b/tbl_alter.php
index db792a978..e33b9979b 100644
--- a/tbl_alter.php
+++ b/tbl_alter.php
@@ -186,18 +186,12 @@ if ($abort == FALSE) {
 
     // We also need this to correctly learn if a TIMESTAMP is NOT NULL, since
     // SHOW FULL FIELDS says NULL and SHOW CREATE TABLE says NOT NULL (tested 
-    // in MySQL 4.0.25). I was able to find that SHOW CREATE TABLE existed
-    // at least in MySQL 3.23.51.
+    // in MySQL 4.0.25).
 
-    if (PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 32351) {
-        $show_create_table_query = 'SHOW CREATE TABLE '
-            . PMA_backquote($db) . '.' . PMA_backquote($table);
-        $show_create_table_res = PMA_DBI_query($show_create_table_query);
-        list(,$show_create_table) = PMA_DBI_fetch_row($show_create_table_res);
-        PMA_DBI_free_result($show_create_table_res);
-        unset($show_create_table_res, $show_create_table_query);
-        $analyzed_sql = PMA_SQP_analyze(PMA_SQP_parse($show_create_table));
-    }
+    $show_create_table = PMA_DBI_fetch_value(
+        'SHOW CREATE TABLE ' . PMA_backquote($db) . '.' . PMA_backquote($table),
+        0, 1 );
+    $analyzed_sql = PMA_SQP_analyze( PMA_SQP_parse( $show_create_table ) );
 
     require('./tbl_properties.inc.php');
 }
diff --git a/tbl_properties_structure.php b/tbl_properties_structure.php
index 91debc0df..70267ec43 100644
--- a/tbl_properties_structure.php
+++ b/tbl_properties_structure.php
@@ -87,15 +87,12 @@ $fields_cnt  = PMA_DBI_num_rows($fields_rs);
 //
 // We also need this to correctly learn if a TIMESTAMP is NOT NULL, since
 // SHOW FULL FIELDS says NULL and SHOW CREATE TABLE says NOT NULL (tested 
-// in MySQL 4.0.25). I was able to find that SHOW CREATE TABLE existed
-// at least in MySQL 3.23.51.
+// in MySQL 4.0.25).
 
-if (PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 32351) {
-    $show_create_table = PMA_DBI_fetch_value(
+$show_create_table = PMA_DBI_fetch_value(
         'SHOW CREATE TABLE ' . PMA_backquote($db) . '.' . PMA_backquote($table),
         0, 1 );
-    $analyzed_sql = PMA_SQP_analyze( PMA_SQP_parse( $show_create_table ) );
-}
+$analyzed_sql = PMA_SQP_analyze( PMA_SQP_parse( $show_create_table ) );
 
 /**
  * Displays the table structure ('show table' works correct since 3.23.03)