CREATE DATABASE showdb; USE showdb; CREATE TABLE showcolumn1 (col1 int, `col 2` int) USING parquet; CREATE TABLE showcolumn2 (price int, qty int, year int, month int) USING parquet partitioned by (year, month); CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW showColumn3 (col3 int, `col 4` int) USING parquet; CREATE GLOBAL TEMP VIEW showColumn4 AS SELECT 1 as col1, 'abc' as `col 5`; -- only table name SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn1; -- qualified table name SHOW COLUMNS IN showdb.showcolumn1; -- table name and database name SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn1 FROM showdb; -- partitioned table SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn2 IN showdb; -- Non-existent table. Raise an error in this case SHOW COLUMNS IN badtable FROM showdb; -- database in table identifier and database name in different case SHOW COLUMNS IN showdb.showcolumn1 from SHOWDB; -- different database name in table identifier and database name. -- Raise an error in this case. SHOW COLUMNS IN showdb.showcolumn1 FROM baddb; -- show column on temporary view SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn3; -- error temp view can't be qualified with a database SHOW COLUMNS IN showdb.showcolumn3; -- error temp view can't be qualified with a database SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn3 FROM showdb; -- error global temp view needs to be qualified SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn4; -- global temp view qualified with database SHOW COLUMNS IN global_temp.showcolumn4; -- global temp view qualified with database SHOW COLUMNS IN showcolumn4 FROM global_temp; DROP TABLE showcolumn1; DROP TABLE showColumn2; DROP VIEW showcolumn3; DROP VIEW global_temp.showcolumn4; use default; DROP DATABASE showdb;