Important

The SingleStore 9.1 release candidate (RC) gives you the opportunity to preview, evaluate, and provide feedback on new and upcoming features prior to their general availability. In the interim, SingleStore 9.0 is recommended for production workloads, which can later be upgraded to SingleStore 9.1.

SHOW TABLES

Syntax

SHOW [FULL] [TEMPORARY] TABLES [{FROM | IN} db_name]
[[EXTENDED] LIKE pattern | WHERE TABLE_TYPE {= | !=} {'VIEW' | 'BASE TABLE'}]

Remarks

db_name is the name of a SingleStore database. If db_name is not specified, then a database must be currently selected (see USE ).
The SHOW TABLES command (without the TEMPORARY option) run on the child or master aggregator displays the global temporary tables and normal tables, but not the temporary tables.
SHOW TEMPORARY TABLES will show temporary tables but not global temporary tables.
If you specify a table type, you must also use the FULL keyword.
This command can be run on any SingleStore node (see Node Requirements for SingleStore Commands).
See the Permission Matrix for the required permission.

Examples

Example 1

Suppose a global temporary table globtemp and a temporary table temptab exists in the database, along with few normal tables. Run the following commands on the master aggregator to view the tables:

SQL

SHOW TABLES;

+---------------+
| Tables_in_db1 |
+---------------+
| allviews      |
| circle        |
| globtemp      |
| product       |
| reading       |
| source        |
| stock         |
| stockN        |
+---------------+

SQL

SHOW TEMPORARY TABLES;

+---------------+------------+------------+
| Tables_in_db1 | aggregator | connection |
+---------------+------------+------------+
| temptab       |          1 |          5 |
+---------------+------------+------------+

Example 2

SQL

SHOW TABLES EXTENDED;

+---------------+------------------------+-------------+-------------------+
| Tables_in_db1 | Table_type             | distributed | Storage_type      |
+---------------+------------------------+-------------+-------------------+
| allviews      | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| circle        | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| globtemp      | GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| product       | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| reading       | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| source        | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| stock         | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| stockN        | BASE TABLE             |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
| temptab       | TEMPORARY TABLE        |           1 | INMEMORY_ROWSTORE |
+---------------+------------------------+-------------+-------------------+

Example 3

SQL

SHOW TABLES LIKE 's%';

+--------------------+
| Tables_in_db1 (s%) |
+--------------------+
| source             |
| stock              |
| stockN             |
+--------------------+

Example 4

SQL

SHOW FULL TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE';

+---------------+------------+
| Tables_in_db1 | Table_type |
+---------------+------------+
| allviews      | BASE TABLE |
| circle        | BASE TABLE |
| product       | BASE TABLE |
| reading       | BASE TABLE |
| source        | BASE TABLE |
| stock         | BASE TABLE |
| stockN        | BASE TABLE |
+---------------+------------+

Last modified: April 26, 2023