Hive Check Table Exists: SHOW TABLES Command

1 year ago
Ava Mitchell
1 minute

You can use the SHOW TABLES command in Hive to list all the tables in the current database, and then check if a specific table exists. An example is shown below:

SHOW TABLES;

To determine if a specific table exists, you can use the following SQL statement:

SHOW TABLES LIKE 'table_name';

If the result contains rows indicating the existence of the table, then the table exists; otherwise, it does not.

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