spark-instrumented-optimizer/docs/sql-ref-syntax-aux-show-tables.md
Huaxin Gao 75da05038b [MINOR][SQL][DOCS] Remove two leading spaces from sql tables
### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Remove two leading spaces from sql tables.

### Why are the changes needed?

Follow the format of other references such as https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/constructs/join.html, https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/statements_10002.htm, https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/sql-select.html.

### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?

before
```
SELECT * FROM  test;
  +-+
  ...
  +-+
```
after
```
SELECT * FROM  test;
+-+
...
+-+
```

### How was this patch tested?
Manually build and check

Closes #28348 from huaxingao/sql-format.

Authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxing@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: gatorsmile <gatorsmile@gmail.com>
2020-05-01 10:11:43 -07:00

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Description

The SHOW TABLES statement returns all the tables for an optionally specified database. Additionally, the output of this statement may be filtered by an optional matching pattern. If no database is specified then the tables are returned from the current database.

Syntax

{% highlight sql %} SHOW TABLES [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ] {% endhighlight %}

Parameters

{ FROM | IN } database_name
Specifies the database name from which tables are listed.
regex_pattern
Specifies the regular expression pattern that is used to filter out unwanted tables.
  • Except for * and | character, the pattern works like a regular expression.
  • * alone matches 0 or more characters and | is used to separate multiple different regular expressions, any of which can match.
  • The leading and trailing blanks are trimmed in the input pattern before processing. The pattern match is case-insensitive.

Examples

{% highlight sql %} -- List all tables in default database SHOW TABLES; +--------+---------+-----------+ |database|tableName|isTemporary| +--------+---------+-----------+ | default| sam| false| | default| sam1| false| | default| suj| false| +--------+---------+-----------+

-- List all tables from userdb database SHOW TABLES FROM userdb; +--------+---------+-----------+ |database|tableName|isTemporary| +--------+---------+-----------+ | userdb| user1| false| | userdb| user2| false| +--------+---------+-----------+

-- List all tables in userdb database SHOW TABLES IN userdb; +--------+---------+-----------+ |database|tableName|isTemporary| +--------+---------+-----------+ | userdb| user1| false| | userdb| user2| false| +--------+---------+-----------+

-- List all tables from default database matching the pattern sam* SHOW TABLES FROM default LIKE 'sam*'; +--------+---------+-----------+ |database|tableName|isTemporary| +--------+---------+-----------+ | default| sam| false| | default| sam1| false| +--------+---------+-----------+

-- List all tables matching the pattern sam*|suj SHOW TABLES LIKE 'sam*|suj'; +--------+---------+-----------+ |database|tableName|isTemporary| +--------+---------+-----------+ | default| sam| false| | default| sam1| false| | default| suj| false| +--------+---------+-----------+ {% endhighlight %}