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### What changes were proposed in this pull request? Added the reference for SHOW TABLES sql command. ### Why are the changes needed? To help the customer usage ### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change? It updates the Sql command reference doc. ### How was this patch tested? <details> <summary> Attached the Snap</summary> ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7912929/66623173-1eac1b80-ec08-11e9-8357-9f6323e5fc48.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7912929/65384657-87f3e980-dd42-11e9-90fa-6650ee68e005.png) </details> Closes #25561 from shivusondur/jiraSHOWTBLS. Authored-by: shivusondur <shivusondur@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sean.owen@databricks.com>
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layout: global
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title: SHOW TABLES
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displayTitle: SHOW TABLES
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license: |
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Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
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contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
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this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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limitations under the License.
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---
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### Description
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The `SHOW TABLES` statement returns all the tables for an optionally specified database.
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Additionally, the output of this statement may be filtered by an optional matching
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pattern. If no database is specified then the tables are returned from the
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current database.
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### Syntax
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{% highlight sql %}
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SHOW TABLES [{FROM|IN} database_name] [LIKE 'regex_pattern']
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{% endhighlight %}
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### Parameters
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<dl>
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<dt><code><em>{FROM|IN} database_name</em></code></dt>
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<dd>
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Specifies the database name from which tables are listed.
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</dd>
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<dt><code><em>LIKE regex_pattern</em></code></dt>
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<dd>
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Specifies the regular expression pattern that is used to filter out unwanted tables.
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<ul>
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<li> Except for `*` and `|` character, the pattern works like a regex.</li>
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<li> `*` alone matches 0 or more characters and `|` is used to separate multiple different regexes,
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any of which can match. </li>
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<li> The leading and trailing blanks are trimmed in the input pattern before processing.</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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### Example
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{% highlight sql %}
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-- List all tables in default database
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SHOW TABLES;
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| database | tableName | isTemporary |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| default | sam | false |
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| default | sam1 | false |
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| default | suj | false |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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-- List all tables from userdb database
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SHOW TABLES FROM userdb;
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| database | tableName | isTemporary |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| userdb | user1 | false |
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| userdb | user2 | false |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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-- List all tables in userdb database
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SHOW TABLES IN userdb;
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| database | tableName | isTemporary |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| userdb | user1 | false |
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| userdb | user2 | false |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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-- List all tables from default database matching the pattern `sam*`
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SHOW TABLES FROM default LIKE 'sam*';
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| database | tableName | isTemporary |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| default | sam | false |
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| default | sam1 | false |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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-- List all tables matching the pattern `sam*|suj`
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SHOW TABLES LIKE 'sam*|suj';
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| database | tableName | isTemporary |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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| default | sam | false |
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| default | sam1 | false |
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| default | suj | false |
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+-----------+------------+--------------+--+
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{% endhighlight %}
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### Related statements
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- [CREATE TABLE](sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table.html)
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- [DROP TABLE](sql-ref-syntax-ddl-drop-table.html)
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- [CREATE DATABASE](sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-database.html)
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- [DROP DATABASE](sql-ref-syntax-ddl-drop-database.html) |