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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.
SHOW CREATE TABLE table_identifier [ AS SERDE ]
table_identifier
Specifies a table or view name, which may be optionally qualified with a database name.
Syntax: [ database_name. ] table_name
AS SERDE
Generates Hive DDL for a Hive SerDe table.
CREATE TABLE test (c INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' STORED AS TEXTFILE TBLPROPERTIES ('prop1' = 'value1', 'prop2' = 'value2'); SHOW CREATE TABLE test; +----------------------------------------------------+ | createtab_stmt| +----------------------------------------------------+ |CREATE TABLE `default`.`test` (`c` INT) USING text TBLPROPERTIES ( 'transient_lastDdlTime' = '1586269021', 'prop1' = 'value1', 'prop2' = 'value2') +----------------------------------------------------+ SHOW CREATE TABLE test AS SERDE; +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | createtab_stmt| +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |CREATE TABLE `default`.`test`( `c` INT) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( 'serialization.format' = ',', 'field.delim' = ',') STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat' TBLPROPERTIES ( 'prop1' = 'value1', 'prop2' = 'value2', 'transient_lastDdlTime' = '1641800515') +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+