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SHOW TBLPROPERTIES
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES
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Description

This statement returns the value of a table property given an optional value for a property key. If no key is specified then all the properties are returned.

Syntax

SHOW TBLPROPERTIES table_identifier 
   [ ( unquoted_property_key | property_key_as_string_literal ) ]

Parameters

  • table_identifier

    Specifies the table name of an existing table. The table may be optionally qualified with a database name.

    Syntax: [ database_name. ] table_name

  • unquoted_property_key

    Specifies the property key in unquoted form. The key may consists of multiple parts separated by dot.

    Syntax: [ key_part1 ] [ .key_part2 ] [ ... ]

  • property_key_as_string_literal

    Specifies a property key value as a string literal.

Note

  • Property value returned by this statement excludes some properties that are internal to spark and hive. The excluded properties are :
    • All the properties that start with prefix spark.sql
    • Property keys such as: EXTERNAL, comment
    • All the properties generated internally by hive to store statistics. Some of these properties are: numFiles, numPartitions, numRows.

Examples

-- create a table `customer` in database `salesdb`
USE salesdb;
CREATE TABLE customer(cust_code INT, name VARCHAR(100), cust_addr STRING)
    TBLPROPERTIES ('created.by.user' = 'John', 'created.date' = '01-01-2001');

-- show all the user specified properties for table `customer`
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer;
+---------------------+----------+
|                  key|     value|
+---------------------+----------+
|      created.by.user|      John|
|         created.date|01-01-2001|
|transient_lastDdlTime|1567554931|
+---------------------+----------+

-- show all the user specified properties for a qualified table `customer`
-- in database `salesdb`
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES salesdb.customer;
+---------------------+----------+
|                  key|     value|
+---------------------+----------+
|      created.by.user|      John|
|         created.date|01-01-2001|
|transient_lastDdlTime|1567554931|
+---------------------+----------+

-- show value for unquoted property key `created.by.user`
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer (created.by.user);
+-----+
|value|
+-----+
| John|
+-----+

-- show value for property `created.date`` specified as string literal
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer ('created.date');
+----------+
|     value|
+----------+
|01-01-2001|
+----------+

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