How can you view the number of tables in a hive?

10 months ago

Jackson Davis

1 minute

In Hive, you can use the `SHOW TABLES` command to display all tables in the database. Here are the specific steps: 1. Open the Hive terminal or connect to the Hive server using another tool. 2. Run the following command to display all tables in the database:

SHOW TABLES;

This command will return a table listing all tables in the database. If you want to see the number of tables in a specific database, you can add the clause `IN database_name` after the `SHOW TABLES` command. For example, to see the number of tables in a database named `mydatabase`, you can run the following command:

SHOW TABLES IN mydatabase;