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[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-1977) DESCRIBE TABLE syntax doesn't support specifying a database qualified table name

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1977?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13067330#comment-13067330 ] 

Carl Steinbach commented on HIVE-1977:
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I think we can fix this by introducing a new configuration property that controls whether DESCRIBE uses the standard syntax or the Hive syntax.

> DESCRIBE TABLE syntax doesn't support specifying a database qualified table name
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1977
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1977
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Carl Steinbach
>
> The syntax for DESCRIBE is broken. It should be:
> {code}
> DESCRIBE [EXTENDED] [database DOT]table [column]
> {code}
> but is actually
> {code}
> DESCRIBE [EXTENDED] table[DOT col_name]
> {code}
> Ref: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/describe.html

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