SHOW TABLE EXTENDED
Applies to: 
Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime
Shows information for all tables matching the given regular expression.
Output includes basic table information and file system information like Last Access,
Created By, Type, Provider, Table Properties, Location, Serde Library, InputFormat,
OutputFormat, Storage Properties, Partition Provider, Partition Columns, and Schema.
If a partition specification is present, it outputs the given partition's file-system-specific
information such as Partition Parameters and Partition Statistics. You cannot use a table regular expression
with a partition specification.
Note
For compatibility with Apache Spark, this command renders the table column types using Apache Spark notation. The mapping to SQL is described in Language mappings. Other ways to retrieve table column information are DESCRIBE TABLE, and on Unity Catalog INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.
Syntax
SHOW TABLE EXTENDED [ { IN | FROM } schema_name ] LIKE regex_pattern
[ PARTITION clause ]
Parameters
-
Specifies schema name. If not provided, uses the current schema.
regex_pattern
The regular expression pattern used to filter out unwanted tables.
- Except for
*and|character, the pattern works like a regular expression. *alone matches 0 or more characters and|is used to separate multiple different regular expressions, any of which can match.- The leading and trailing blanks are trimmed in the input pattern before processing. The pattern match is case-insensitive.
- Except for
-
Optionally specifying partitions. You cannot use a table regex pattern with a
PARTITIONclause.
Examples
-- Assumes `employee` table partitioned by column `grade`
> CREATE TABLE employee(name STRING, grade INT) PARTITIONED BY (grade);
> INSERT INTO employee PARTITION (grade = 1) VALUES ('sam');
> INSERT INTO employee PARTITION (grade = 2) VALUES ('suj');
-- Show the details of the table
> SHOW TABLE EXTENDED LIKE 'employee';
database tableName isTemporary information
-------- --------- ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------
default employee false Database: default
Table: employee
Owner: root
Created Time: Fri Aug 30 15:10:21 IST 2019
Last Access: Thu Jan 01 05:30:00 IST 1970
Created By: Spark 3.0.0
Type: MANAGED
Provider: hive
Table Properties: [transient_lastDdlTime=1567158021]
Location: file:/opt/spark1/spark/spark-warehouse/employee
Serde Library: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy
.LazySimpleSerDe
InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
OutputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io
.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
Storage Properties: [serialization.format=1]
Partition Provider: Catalog
Partition Columns: [`grade`]
Schema: root
-- name: string (nullable = true)
-- grade: integer (nullable = true)
-- show multiple table details with pattern matching
> SHOW TABLE EXTENDED LIKE 'employe*';
database tableName isTemporary information
-------- --------- ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------
default employee false Database: default
Table: employee
Owner: root
Created Time: Fri Aug 30 15:10:21 IST 2019
Last Access: Thu Jan 01 05:30:00 IST 1970
Created By: Spark 3.0.0
Type: MANAGED
Provider: hive
Table Properties: [transient_lastDdlTime=1567158021]
Location: file:/opt/spark1/spark/spark-warehouse/employee
Serde Library: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy
.LazySimpleSerDe
InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
OutputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io
.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
Storage Properties: [serialization.format=1]
Partition Provider: Catalog
Partition Columns: [`grade`]
Schema: root
-- name: string (nullable = true)
-- grade: integer (nullable = true)
default employee1 false Database: default
Table: employee1
Owner: root
Created Time: Fri Aug 30 15:22:33 IST 2019
Last Access: Thu Jan 01 05:30:00 IST 1970
Created By: Spark 3.0.0
Type: MANAGED
Provider: hive
Table Properties: [transient_lastDdlTime=1567158753]
Location: file:/opt/spark1/spark/spark-warehouse/employee1
Serde Library: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy
.LazySimpleSerDe
InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
OutputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io
.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
Storage Properties: [serialization.format=1]
Partition Provider: Catalog
Schema: root
-- name: string (nullable = true)
-- show partition file system details
> SHOW TABLE EXTENDED IN default LIKE 'employee' PARTITION (grade = 1);
database tableName isTemporary information
-------- --------- ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------
default employee false Partition Values: [grade=1]
Location: file:/opt/spark1/spark/spark-warehouse/employee
/grade=1
Serde Library: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy
.LazySimpleSerDe
InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
OutputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io
.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
Storage Properties: [serialization.format=1]
Partition Parameters: {rawDataSize=-1, numFiles=1,
transient_lastDdlTime=1567158221, totalSize=4,
COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE=false, numRows=-1}
Created Time: Fri Aug 30 15:13:41 IST 2019
Last Access: Thu Jan 01 05:30:00 IST 1970
Partition Statistics: 4 bytes
-- show partition file system details with regex fail
> SHOW TABLE EXTENDED IN default LIKE 'empl*' PARTITION (grade = 1);
Error: TABLE_OR_VIEW_NOT_FOUND