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DESCRIBE

DESCRIBE​

Name​

DESCRIBE

Description​

This statement is used to display the schema information of the specified table

grammar:

DESC[RIBE] [db_name.]table_name [ALL];

illustrate:

  1. If ALL is specified, the schemas of all indexes (rollup) of the table will be displayed

Example​

  1. Display the Base table schema

    DESC table_name;
  2. Display the schema of all indexes of the table

    DESC db1.table_name ALL;

Keywords​

DESCRIBE

Best Practice​