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

You can query the metastore schema in your MySQL database. Something like:

mysql> select * from TBLS;

More details on how to configure a MySQL metastore to store metadata for Hive and verify and see the stored metadata here.