How do you query all tables under a user in Hive?

2 years ago
Olivia Parker
1 minute

To search for all tables under a user, you need to use the SHOW TABLES statement in Hive. Here are the steps to query all tables under a user:

  1. Open the Hive command-line interface or use any tool that supports Hive queries, such as Hue.
  2. Input the following command in the Hive command line or query tool:
SHOW TABLES;

This command will display all tables in the current active database.

If you want to query all tables under a specific user, you can use the following command:

SHOW TABLES IN <database_name> LIKE '<user_name>*';

Replace with the name of the database you want to query, and with the name of the user you want to query. This command will display all tables for the specified user in the specified database.

Please note that you need the appropriate permissions to query tables of other users. If you don’t have enough permissions, you may not be able to view tables of other users.

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