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Description

SHOW CREATE TABLE returns the CREATE TABLE statement or CREATE VIEW statement that was used to create a given table or view. SHOW CREATE TABLE on a non-existent table or a temporary view throws an exception.

Syntax

{% highlight sql %} SHOW CREATE TABLE table_identifier {% endhighlight %}

Parameters

Examples

{% highlight sql %} CREATE TABLE test (c INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’ STORED AS TEXTFILE TBLPROPERTIES (‘prop1’ = ‘value1’, ‘prop2’ = ‘value2’);

show create table test;

-- the result of SHOW CREATE TABLE test CREATE TABLE test(c INT) ROW FORMAT SERDE ‘org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe’ WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( ‘field.delim’ = ‘,’, ‘serialization.format’ = ‘,’ ) STORED AS INPUTFORMAT ‘org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat’ OUTPUTFORMAT ‘org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat’ TBLPROPERTIES ( ‘transient_lastDdlTime’ = ‘1569350233’, ‘prop1’ = ‘value1’, ‘prop2’ = ‘value2’ )

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