Description
Supported engines: Presto and SparkSQL
Applicable table: Native and external tables
Purpose: List all base tables and views in the database.
Statement
SHOW TABLES [IN database_name] ['regular_expression']
Parameter
[IN database_name]
: Name of the database whose tables are to be listed. If this parameter is left blank, the database in the current context is selected.
['regular_expression']
: Regular expression for filtering matching tables Only the wildcard character * representing any character or expressions representing spaces or special characters between normal characters can be used.
Example
SHOW TABLES IN sampledb '*flights*';
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