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[Hadoop Wiki] Update of "Hive/LanguageManual/DDL" by HeYongqiang
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SHOW PARTITIONS lists all the existing partitions for a given table. Partitions are listed in alphabetical order.
+ === Show Table/Partitions Extended===
+ {{{
+ SHOW TABLE EXTENDED [ IN|FROM database_name] LIKE identifier_with_wildcards [PARTITION(partition_desc)]
+ }}}
+ SHOW TABLE EXTENDED will list information for all the tables matching the given regular expression. If a partition specification is present, it will output table information plus given partition's file system information. Users can not use regular expression for table name if a partition specification is present.
+ This command's output includes table information and file system information like totalNumberFiles, totalFileSize, maxFileSize, minFileSize,lastAccessTime, and lastUpdateTime. If partition is present, it will output the given partition's file system information.
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=== Show Functions ===
{{{
SHOW FUNCTIONS "a.*"