Hive - How to see the table created in metastore?

Question

Here is our setup - We have Hive that uses MySQL on another machine as a metastore. I can start the Hive command line shell and create a table and describe it. But when I lo

Answer 1

Another useful query if you want to search what other tables a particular column belongs to:

SELECT c.column_name, tbl_name, c.comment, c.type_name, c.integer_idx,
 tbl_id, create_time, owner, retention, t.sd_id, tbl_type, input_format, is_compressed, location,
 num_buckets, output_format, serde_id, s.cd_id
FROM TBLS t, SDS s, COLUMNS_V2 c
-- WHERE tbl_name = 'my_table'
WHERE t.SD_ID = s.SD_ID
AND s.cd_id = c.cd_id
AND c.column_name = 'my_col'
order by create_time