--- layout: global title: SHOW CREATE TABLE displayTitle: SHOW CREATE TABLE license: | Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --- ### Description `SHOW CREATE TABLE` returns the [CREATE TABLE statement](sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table.html) or [CREATE VIEW statement](sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-view.html) 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
table_identifier
[ database_name. ] table_name