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Apache Hive Cookbook
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Apache Hive Cookbook

by Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra
April 2016
Beginner content levelBeginner
268 pages
5h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Showing database schemas

In this recipe, you will learn how to show databases in Hive.

Getting ready

The SHOW DATABASE command is used to list all the databases in the Hive metastore. The general format of using the SHOW DATABASE command is as follows:

SHOW (DATABASES|SCHEMAS) [LIKE identifier_with_wildcards];

Where:

  • DATABASE|SCHEMA: These are the same thing. These words can be used interchangeably.
  • [LIKE]: Is an optional clause. This clause is used to filter the databases with the help of a regular expression. There can only be two wildcards in the regular expression, which are * for any character(s) or | for a choice.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to show a database in Hive:

  • The following command lists all the databases in Hive:
    Show databases; ...
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