Which node table in Drupal 6 stores the node published date, created date timestamps?
The node created and updated timestamps are stored in the base "node" table.

e.g

$result = db_query("SELECT nid, title, changed, created FROM {node} ORDER BY nid ASC LIMIT 10");

while($row = db_fetch_object($result)){
  // drupal_set_message($row-&gt;title);
  drupal_set_message('&lt;pre&gt;'.print_r($row,1).'&lt;/pre&gt;');
}