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SHOW Statement for Metadata

SHOW command can be used to get brief system information. To get details about metadata, information, and status in the system, please use select to query the tables in database INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

SHOW APPS

SHOW APPS;

Shows all clients (such as applications) that connect to the cluster.

SHOW CLUSTER

SHOW CLUSTER;

Shows information about the current cluster.

SHOW CLUSTER ALIVE

SHOW CLUSTER ALIVE;

It is used to check whether the cluster is available or not. Return value: 0 means unavailable, 1 means available, 2 means partially available (some dnodes are offline, the other dnodes are available)

SHOW CONNECTIONS

SHOW CONNECTIONS;

Shows information about connections to the system.

SHOW CONSUMERS

SHOW CONSUMERS;

Shows information about all consumers in the system.

SHOW CREATE DATABASE

SHOW CREATE DATABASE db_name;

Shows the SQL statement used to create the specified database.

SHOW CREATE STABLE

SHOW CREATE STABLE [db_name.]stb_name;

Shows the SQL statement used to create the specified supertable.

SHOW CREATE TABLE

SHOW CREATE TABLE [db_name.]tb_name

Shows the SQL statement used to create the specified table. This statement can be used on supertables, standard tables, and subtables.

SHOW DATABASES

SHOW [USER | SYSTEM] DATABASES;

Shows all databases. The USER qualifier specifies only user-created databases. The SYSTEM qualifier specifies only system databases.

SHOW DNODES

SHOW DNODES;

Shows all dnodes in the system.

SHOW FUNCTIONS

SHOW FUNCTIONS;

Shows all user-defined functions in the system.

SHOW LICENCES

SHOW LICENCES;
SHOW GRANTS;

Shows information about the TDengine Enterprise Edition license.

Note: TDengine Enterprise Edition only.

SHOW INDEXES

SHOW INDEXES FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name];
SHOW INDEXES FROM [db_name.]tbl_name;

Shows indices that have been created.

SHOW LOCAL VARIABLES

SHOW LOCAL VARIABLES;

Shows the working configuration of the client.

SHOW MNODES

SHOW MNODES;

Shows information about mnodes in the system.

SHOW QNODES

SHOW QNODES;

Shows information about qnodes in the system.

SHOW QUERIES

SHOW QUERIES;

Shows the queries in progress in the system.

SHOW SCORES

SHOW SCORES;

Shows information about the storage space allowed by the license.

Note: TDengine Enterprise Edition only.

SHOW STABLES

SHOW [db_name.]STABLES [LIKE 'pattern'];

Shows all supertables in the current database. You can use LIKE for fuzzy matching.

SHOW STREAMS

SHOW STREAMS;

Shows information about streams in the system.

SHOW SUBSCRIPTIONS

SHOW SUBSCRIPTIONS;

Shows all subscriptions in the system.

SHOW TABLES

SHOW [NORMAL | CHILD] [db_name.]TABLES [LIKE 'pattern'];

Shows all standard tables and subtables in the current database. You can use LIKE for fuzzy matching. The Normal qualifier specifies standard tables. The CHILD qualifier specifies subtables.

SHOW TABLE DISTRIBUTED

SHOW TABLE DISTRIBUTED table_name;

Shows how table data is distributed.

Examples: Below is an example of this command to display the block distribution of table d0 in detailed format.

show table distributed d0\G;
Show Example

*************************** 1.row *************************** _block_dist: Total_Blocks=[5] Total_Size=[93.65 KB] Average_size=[18.73 KB] Compression_Ratio=[23.98 %]

Total_Blocks : Table d0 contains total 5 blocks

Total_Size: The total size of all the data blocks in table d0 is 93.65 KB

Average_size: The average size of each block is 18.73 KB

Compression_Ratio: The data compression rate is 23.98%

*************************** 2.row *************************** _block_dist: Total_Rows=[20000] Inmem_Rows=[0] MinRows=[3616] MaxRows=[4096] Average_Rows=[4000]

Total_Rows: Table d0 contains 20,000 rows

Inmem_Rows: The rows still in memory, i.e. not committed in disk, is 0, i.e. none such rows

MinRows: The minimum number of rows in a block is 3,616

MaxRows: The maximum number of rows in a block is 4,096B

Average_Rows: The average number of rows in a block is 4,000

*************************** 3.row *************************** _block_dist: Total_Tables=[1] Total_Files=[2]

Total_Tables: The number of child tables, 1 in this example

Total_Files: The number of files storing the table's data, 2 in this example

*************************** 4.row ***************************

_block_dist: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*************************** 5.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0100 |

*************************** 6.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0299 |

*************************** 7.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0498 |

*************************** 8.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0697 |

*************************** 9.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0896 |

*************************** 10.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1095 |

*************************** 11.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1294 |

*************************** 12.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1493 |

*************************** 13.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1692 |

*************************** 14.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1891 |

*************************** 15.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2090 |

*************************** 16.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2289 |

*************************** 17.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2488 |

*************************** 18.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2687 |

*************************** 19.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2886 |

*************************** 20.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3085 |

*************************** 21.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3284 |

*************************** 22.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3483 ||||||||||||||||| 1 (20.00%)

*************************** 23.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3682 |

*************************** 24.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3881 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 4 (80.00%)

Query OK, 24 row(s) in set (0.002444s)

The above show the block distribution percentage according to the number of rows in each block. In the above example, we can get below information:

  • _block_dist: 3483 ||||||||||||||||| 1 (20.00%) means there is one block whose rows is between 3,483 and 3,681.
  • _block_dist: 3881 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 4 (80.00%) means there are 4 blocks whose rows is between 3,881 and 4,096. - The number of blocks whose rows fall in other range is zero.

Note that only the information about the data blocks in the data file will be displayed here, and the information about the data in the stt file will not be displayed.

SHOW TAGS

SHOW TAGS FROM child_table_name [FROM db_name];
SHOW TAGS FROM [db_name.]child_table_name;

Shows all tag information in a subtable.

SHOW TOPICS

SHOW TOPICS;

Shows all topics in the current database.

SHOW TRANSACTIONS

SHOW TRANSACTIONS;

Shows all running transactions in the system.

SHOW USERS

SHOW USERS;

Shows information about users on the system. This includes user-created users and system-defined users.

SHOW VARIABLES

SHOW VARIABLES;
SHOW DNODE dnode_id VARIABLES;

Shows the working configuration of the parameters that must be the same on each node. You can also specify a dnode to show the working configuration for that node.

SHOW VGROUPS

SHOW [db_name.]VGROUPS;

Shows information about all vgroups in the current database.

SHOW VNODES

SHOW VNODES [ON DNODE dnode_id];

Shows information about all vnodes in the system or about the vnodes for a specified dnode.