Get Table Properties out of Hive using Java API

Question

I\'m trying to get table properties like table db, name, owner, and hdfs location out of the hive metastore using the metastore client in java. I think I can get the table d

Answer 1

I ran the following command on my virtualbox having Cloudera CDH 5.1.0

$ hive -e "describe extended tablename"

The output of this command provides information in addition to tablename, dbname, owner, createtime, location. You can also refer the following CWIKI link for more details

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Describe