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### What changes were proposed in this pull request? Standardize sql reference ### Why are the changes needed? To have consistent docs ### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change? Yes ### How was this patch tested? Tested using jykyll build --serve Closes #26721 from huaxingao/spark-30085. Authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxing@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sean.owen@databricks.com>
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Description
This statement returns the value of a table property given an optional value for a property key. If no key is specified then all the properties are returned.
Syntax
{% highlight sql %} SHOW TBLPROPERTIES table_identifier [ ( unquoted_property_key | property_key_as_string_literal ) ] {% endhighlight %}
Parameters
table_identifier-
Specifies the table name of an existing table. The table may be optionally qualified
with a database name.
Syntax:[ database_name. ] table_name unquoted_property_key-
Specifies the property key in unquoted form. The key may consists of multiple
parts separated by dot.
Syntax:[ key_part1 ] [ .key_part2 ] [ ... ] property_key_as_string_literal- Specifies a property key value as a string literal.
Note
- Property value returned by this statement excludes some properties
that are internal to spark and hive. The excluded properties are :
- All the properties that start with prefix
spark.sql - Property keys such as:
EXTERNAL,comment - All the properties generated internally by hive to store statistics. Some of these
properties are:
numFiles,numPartitions,numRows.
- All the properties that start with prefix
Examples
{% highlight sql %}
-- create a table customer in database salesdb
USE salesdb;
CREATE TABLE customer(cust_code INT, name VARCHAR(100), cust_addr STRING)
TBLPROPERTIES ('created.by.user' = 'John', 'created.date' = '01-01-2001');
-- show all the user specified properties for table customer
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer;
+---------------------+----------+
|key |value |
+---------------------+----------+
|created.by.user |John |
|created.date |01-01-2001|
|transient_lastDdlTime|1567554931|
+---------------------+----------+
-- show all the user specified properties for a qualified table customer
-- in database salesdb
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES salesdb.customer;
+---------------------+----------+
|key |value |
+---------------------+----------+
|created.by.user |John |
|created.date |01-01-2001|
|transient_lastDdlTime|1567554931|
+---------------------+----------+
-- show value for unquoted property key created.by.user
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer (created.by.user);
+-----+
|value|
+-----+
|John |
+-----+
-- show value for property `created.date`` specified as string literal SHOW TBLPROPERTIES customer ('created.date'); +----------+ |value | +----------+ |01-01-2001| +----------+ {% endhighlight %}