- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Operation Guide
- Development Guide
- Client Access
- Practical Tutorial
- SQL Statement
- SuperSQL Statement
- Overview of SuperSQL Statement
- Unified Statement
- Common Data Types
- DDL Statement
- CREATE DATABASE
- SHOW DATABASES
- DESCRIBE DATABASE
- ALTER DATABASE
- DROP DATABASE
- CREATE TABLE
- REPLACE TABLE AS SELECT
- SHOW TABLES
- SHOW CREATE TABLE
- SHOW TBLPROPERTIES
- DESCRIBE TABLE
- SHOW COLUMNS IN TABLE
- ALTER TABLE
- ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS
- ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN AFTER/FIRST
- ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
- ALTER TABLE ADD PARTATION
- SHOW PARTITIONS
- ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION
- ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION FIELD
- ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION FIELD
- ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN
- ALTER TABLE SET TBLPROPERTIES
- ALTER TABLE SET LOCATION
- ALTER TABLE ... WRITE ORDERED BY
- ALTER TABLE ... WRITE DISTRIBUTED BY PARTITION
- ALTER TABLE ... SET IDENTIFIER FIELDS
- ALTER TABLE ... DROP IDENTIFIER FIELDS
- MSCK REPAIR TABLE
- ANALYZE TABLES
- DROP TABLE
- EXPLAIN
- CALL STATEMENT
- CREATE VIEW AS
- SHOW VIEWS
- DESCRIBE VIEW
- SHOW CREATE VIEW
- SHOW COLUMNS IN VIEW
- ALTER VIEW
- DROP VIEW
- CREATE FUNCTION
- SHOW FUNCTION
- DROP FUNCTION
- DML Statement
- DQL Statement
- Iceberg Table Statement
- Materialized View Statement
- SQL Implicit Conversion
- Functions
- Overview of Standard Spark Statement
- Overview of Standard Presto Statement
- Reserved Words
- SuperSQL Statement
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- Making API Requests
- Data Table APIs
- Task APIs
- CreateSparkSessionBatchSQL
- CancelSparkSessionBatchSQL
- CancelTask
- CreateResultDownload
- CreateSparkAppTask
- CreateTask
- CreateTasks
- DeleteSparkApp
- DescribeEngineUsageInfo
- DescribeResultDownload
- DescribeSparkAppTasks
- DescribeTaskResult
- DescribeTasks
- QueryTaskCostDetail
- CreateSparkApp
- DescribeSparkAppJob
- DescribeSparkSessionBatchSqlLog
- ModifySparkApp
- DescribeSparkAppJobs
- ModifySparkAppBatch
- DescribeTaskStatistics
- DescribeQuery
- DescribeJobs
- DescribeJob
- Metadata APIs
- Service Configuration APIs
- CreateCHDFSBindingProduct
- DeleteCHDFSBindingProduct
- DescribeOtherCHDFSBindingList
- CreateStoreLocation
- DescribeStoreLocation
- ModifyDataEngineDescription
- RollbackDataEngineImage
- SwitchDataEngine
- SwitchDataEngineImage
- UpgradeDataEngineImage
- DeleteThirdPartyAccessUser
- DescribeDataEngineImageVersions
- DescribeSubUserAccessPolicy
- DescribeThirdPartyAccessUser
- RegisterThirdPartyAccessUser
- RestartDataEngine
- UpdateUserDataEngineConfig
- UpdateDataEngineConfig
- Permission Management APIs
- AddUsersToWorkGroup
- AttachUserPolicy
- AttachWorkGroupPolicy
- BindWorkGroupsToUser
- CreateUser
- CreateWorkGroup
- DeleteUser
- DeleteUsersFromWorkGroup
- DeleteWorkGroup
- DescribeUserInfo
- DescribeUserRoles
- DescribeUserType
- DescribeUsers
- DescribeWorkGroupInfo
- DescribeWorkGroups
- DetachUserPolicy
- DetachWorkGroupPolicy
- ModifyUser
- ModifyUserType
- ModifyWorkGroup
- UnbindWorkGroupsFromUser
- UpdateRowFilter
- CheckGrantedPermission
- Database APIs
- Data Source Connection APIs
- Data Optimization APIs
- Data Engine APIs
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- General Reference
- DLC Policy
- Service Level Agreement
- Contact Us
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Operation Guide
- Development Guide
- Client Access
- Practical Tutorial
- SQL Statement
- SuperSQL Statement
- Overview of SuperSQL Statement
- Unified Statement
- Common Data Types
- DDL Statement
- CREATE DATABASE
- SHOW DATABASES
- DESCRIBE DATABASE
- ALTER DATABASE
- DROP DATABASE
- CREATE TABLE
- REPLACE TABLE AS SELECT
- SHOW TABLES
- SHOW CREATE TABLE
- SHOW TBLPROPERTIES
- DESCRIBE TABLE
- SHOW COLUMNS IN TABLE
- ALTER TABLE
- ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS
- ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN AFTER/FIRST
- ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
- ALTER TABLE ADD PARTATION
- SHOW PARTITIONS
- ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION
- ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION FIELD
- ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION FIELD
- ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN
- ALTER TABLE SET TBLPROPERTIES
- ALTER TABLE SET LOCATION
- ALTER TABLE ... WRITE ORDERED BY
- ALTER TABLE ... WRITE DISTRIBUTED BY PARTITION
- ALTER TABLE ... SET IDENTIFIER FIELDS
- ALTER TABLE ... DROP IDENTIFIER FIELDS
- MSCK REPAIR TABLE
- ANALYZE TABLES
- DROP TABLE
- EXPLAIN
- CALL STATEMENT
- CREATE VIEW AS
- SHOW VIEWS
- DESCRIBE VIEW
- SHOW CREATE VIEW
- SHOW COLUMNS IN VIEW
- ALTER VIEW
- DROP VIEW
- CREATE FUNCTION
- SHOW FUNCTION
- DROP FUNCTION
- DML Statement
- DQL Statement
- Iceberg Table Statement
- Materialized View Statement
- SQL Implicit Conversion
- Functions
- Overview of Standard Spark Statement
- Overview of Standard Presto Statement
- Reserved Words
- SuperSQL Statement
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- Making API Requests
- Data Table APIs
- Task APIs
- CreateSparkSessionBatchSQL
- CancelSparkSessionBatchSQL
- CancelTask
- CreateResultDownload
- CreateSparkAppTask
- CreateTask
- CreateTasks
- DeleteSparkApp
- DescribeEngineUsageInfo
- DescribeResultDownload
- DescribeSparkAppTasks
- DescribeTaskResult
- DescribeTasks
- QueryTaskCostDetail
- CreateSparkApp
- DescribeSparkAppJob
- DescribeSparkSessionBatchSqlLog
- ModifySparkApp
- DescribeSparkAppJobs
- ModifySparkAppBatch
- DescribeTaskStatistics
- DescribeQuery
- DescribeJobs
- DescribeJob
- Metadata APIs
- Service Configuration APIs
- CreateCHDFSBindingProduct
- DeleteCHDFSBindingProduct
- DescribeOtherCHDFSBindingList
- CreateStoreLocation
- DescribeStoreLocation
- ModifyDataEngineDescription
- RollbackDataEngineImage
- SwitchDataEngine
- SwitchDataEngineImage
- UpgradeDataEngineImage
- DeleteThirdPartyAccessUser
- DescribeDataEngineImageVersions
- DescribeSubUserAccessPolicy
- DescribeThirdPartyAccessUser
- RegisterThirdPartyAccessUser
- RestartDataEngine
- UpdateUserDataEngineConfig
- UpdateDataEngineConfig
- Permission Management APIs
- AddUsersToWorkGroup
- AttachUserPolicy
- AttachWorkGroupPolicy
- BindWorkGroupsToUser
- CreateUser
- CreateWorkGroup
- DeleteUser
- DeleteUsersFromWorkGroup
- DeleteWorkGroup
- DescribeUserInfo
- DescribeUserRoles
- DescribeUserType
- DescribeUsers
- DescribeWorkGroupInfo
- DescribeWorkGroups
- DetachUserPolicy
- DetachWorkGroupPolicy
- ModifyUser
- ModifyUserType
- ModifyWorkGroup
- UnbindWorkGroupsFromUser
- UpdateRowFilter
- CheckGrantedPermission
- Database APIs
- Data Source Connection APIs
- Data Optimization APIs
- Data Engine APIs
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- General Reference
- DLC Policy
- Service Level Agreement
- Contact Us
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;
SHOW TABLES IN sampledb '*flights*';
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