-- SHOW COLUMNS table_identifier [ database ] SHOW COLUMNS IN customer; SHOW COLUMNS IN salesdb.customer; SHOW COLUMNS IN customer IN salesdb; -- SHOW CREATE TABLE table_identifier [ AS SERDE ] SHOW CREATE TABLE test; SHOW CREATE TABLE test AS SERDE; -- SHOW { DATABASES | SCHEMAS } [ LIKE regex_pattern ] SHOW DATABASES; SHOW DATABASES LIKE 'pay*'; SHOW SCHEMAS; -- SHOW [ function_kind ] FUNCTIONS [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ] SHOW FUNCTIONS trim; SHOW SYSTEM FUNCTIONS concat; SHOW SYSTEM FUNCTIONS FROM salesdb LIKE 'max'; SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE 't*'; SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE 'yea*|windo*'; SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE 't[a-z][a-z][a-z]'; -- SHOW PARTITIONS table_identifier [ partition_spec ] SHOW PARTITIONS customer; SHOW PARTITIONS salesdb.customer; SHOW PARTITIONS customer PARTITION (state = 'CA', city = 'Fremont'); SHOW PARTITIONS customer PARTITION (state = 'CA'); SHOW PARTITIONS customer PARTITION (city = 'San Jose'); -- SHOW TABLE EXTENDED [ { IN | FROM } database_name ] LIKE regex_pattern -- [ partition_spec ] SHOW TABLE EXTENDED LIKE 'employee'; SHOW TABLE EXTENDED LIKE 'employe*'; SHOW TABLE EXTENDED IN default LIKE 'employee' PARTITION (grade=1); SHOW TABLE EXTENDED IN default LIKE 'empl*' PARTITION (grade=1); -- SHOW TABLES [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ] SHOW TABLES; SHOW TABLES FROM userdb; SHOW TABLES IN userdb; SHOW TABLES FROM default LIKE 'sam*'; SHOW TABLES LIKE 'sam*|suj'; -- SHOW TBLPROPERTIES table_identifier -- [ ( unquoted_property_key | property_key_as_string_literal ) ] SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer; SHOW TBLPROPERTIES salesdb.customer; SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer (created.by.user); SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer ('created.date'); -- SHOW VIEWS [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ] SHOW VIEWS; SHOW VIEWS FROM userdb; SHOW VIEWS IN global_temp; SHOW VIEWS FROM default LIKE 'sam*'; SHOW VIEWS LIKE 'sam|suj|temp*';