SHOW Statements - ClickHouse Documentation

SHOW CREATE (TABLE|DATABASE|USER) hides secrets unless the following settings are turned on:

display_secrets_in_show_and_select (server setting)
format_display_secrets_in_show_and_select (format setting)

Additionally, the user should have the displaySecretsInShowAndSelect privilege.

SHOW CREATE TABLE | DICTIONARY | VIEW | DATABASE

These statements return a single column of type String, containing the CREATE query used for creating the specified object.

Syntax

SHOW [CREATE] TABLE | TEMPORARY TABLE | DICTIONARY | VIEW | DATABASE [db.]table|view [INTO OUTFILE filename] [FORMAT format]

If you use this statement to get the CREATE query of system tables, you will get a fake query, which only declares the table structure, but cannot be used to create a table.

SHOW DATABASES

This statement prints a list of all databases.

Syntax

SHOW DATABASES [[NOT] LIKE | ILIKE '<pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO OUTFILE filename] [FORMAT format]

It is identical to the query:

SELECT name FROM system.databases [WHERE name [NOT] LIKE | ILIKE '<pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO OUTFILE filename] [FORMAT format]

Examples

In this example we use SHOW to obtain database names containing the symbol sequence ‘de’ in their names:

Query

SHOW DATABASES LIKE '%de%'

Response

┌─name────┐
│ default │
└─────────┘

We can also do so in a case-insensitive manner:

Query

SHOW DATABASES ILIKE '%DE%'

Response

┌─name────┐
│ default │
└─────────┘

Or get database names which do not contain ‘de’ in their names:

Query

SHOW DATABASES NOT LIKE '%de%'

Response

┌─name───────────────────────────┐
│ _temporary_and_external_tables │
│ system                         │
│ test                           │
│ tutorial                       │
└────────────────────────────────┘

Finally, we can get the names of only the first two databases:

Query

SHOW DATABASES LIMIT 2

Response

┌─name───────────────────────────┐
│ _temporary_and_external_tables │
│ default                        │
└────────────────────────────────┘

SHOW TABLES

The SHOW TABLES statement displays a list of tables.

Syntax

SHOW [FULL] [TEMPORARY] TABLES [{FROM | IN} <db>] [[NOT] LIKE | ILIKE '<pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO OUTFILE <filename>] [FORMAT <format>]

If the FROM clause is not specified, the query returns a list of tables from the current database. This statement is identical to the query:

SELECT name FROM system.tables [WHERE name [NOT] LIKE | ILIKE '<pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO OUTFILE <filename>] [FORMAT <format>]

Examples

In this example we use the SHOW TABLES statement to find all tables containing ‘user’ in their names:

Query

SHOW TABLES FROM system LIKE '%user%'

Response

┌─name─────────────┐
│ user_directories │
│ users            │
└──────────────────┘

We can also do so in a case-insensitive manner:

Query

SHOW TABLES FROM system ILIKE '%USER%'

Response

┌─name─────────────┐
│ user_directories │
│ users            │
└──────────────────┘

Or to find tables which don’t contain the letter ‘s’ in their names:

Query

SHOW TABLES FROM system NOT LIKE '%s%'

Response

┌─name─────────┐
│ metric_log   │
│ metric_log_0 │
│ metric_log_1 │
└──────────────┘

Finally, we can get the names of only the first two tables:

Query

SHOW TABLES FROM system LIMIT 2

Response

┌─name───────────────────────────┐
│ aggregate_function_combinators │
│ asynchronous_metric_log        │
└────────────────────────────────┘

SHOW COLUMNS

The SHOW COLUMNS statement displays a list of columns.

Syntax

SHOW [EXTENDED] [FULL] COLUMNS {FROM | IN} <table> [{FROM | IN} <db>] [{[NOT] {LIKE | ILIKE} '<pattern>' | WHERE <expr>}] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO
OUTFILE <filename>] [FORMAT <format>]

The database and table name can be specified in abbreviated form as <db>.<table>, meaning that FROM tab FROM db and FROM db.tab are equivalent. If no database is specified, the query returns the list of columns from the current database. There are also two optional keywords: EXTENDED and FULL. The EXTENDED keyword currently has no effect, and exists for MySQL compatibility. The FULL keyword causes the output to include the collation, comment and privilege columns. The SHOW COLUMNS statement produces a result table with the following structure:

Column	Description	Type
`field`	The name of the column	`String`
`type`	The column data type. If the query was made through the MySQL wire protocol, then the equivalent type name in MySQL is shown.	`String`
`null`	`YES` if the column data type is Nullable, `NO` otherwise	`String`
`key`	`PRI` if the column is part of the primary key, `SOR` if the column is part of the sorting key, empty otherwise	`String`
`default`	Default expression of the column if it is of type `ALIAS`, `DEFAULT`, or `MATERIALIZED`, otherwise `NULL`.	`Nullable(String)`
`extra`	Additional information, currently unused	`String`
`collation`	(only if `FULL` keyword was specified) Collation of the column, always `NULL` because ClickHouse has no per-column collations	`Nullable(String)`
`comment`	(only if `FULL` keyword was specified) Comment on the column	`String`
`privilege`	(only if `FULL` keyword was specified) The privilege you have on this column, currently not available	`String`

Examples

In this example we’ll use the SHOW COLUMNS statement to get information about all columns in table ‘orders’, starting from ‘delivery_’:

Query

SHOW COLUMNS FROM 'orders' LIKE 'delivery_%'

Response

┌─field───────────┬─type─────┬─null─┬─key─────┬─default─┬─extra─┐
│ delivery_date   │ DateTime │    0 │ PRI SOR │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ    │       │
│ delivery_status │ Bool     │    0 │         │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ    │       │
└─────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴─────────┴─────────┴───────┘

SHOW DICTIONARIES

The SHOW DICTIONARIES statement displays a list of Dictionaries.

Syntax

SHOW DICTIONARIES [FROM <db>] [LIKE '<pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO OUTFILE <filename>] [FORMAT <format>]

If the FROM clause is not specified, the query returns the list of dictionaries from the current database. You can get the same results as the SHOW DICTIONARIES query in the following way:

SELECT name FROM system.dictionaries WHERE database = <db> [AND name LIKE <pattern>] [LIMIT <N>] [INTO OUTFILE <filename>] [FORMAT <format>]

Examples

The following query selects the first two rows from the list of tables in the system database, whose names contain reg.

Query

SHOW DICTIONARIES FROM db LIKE '%reg%' LIMIT 2

Response

┌─name─────────┐
│ regions      │
│ region_names │
└──────────────┘

SHOW INDEX

Displays a list of primary and data skipping indexes of a table. This statement mostly exists for compatibility with MySQL. System tables system.tables (for primary keys) and system.data_skipping_indices (for data skipping indices) provide equivalent information but in a fashion more native to ClickHouse.

Syntax

SHOW [EXTENDED] {INDEX | INDEXES | INDICES | KEYS } {FROM | IN} <table> [{FROM | IN} <db>] [WHERE <expr>] [INTO OUTFILE <filename>] [FORMAT <format>]

The database and table name can be specified in abbreviated form as <db>.<table>, i.e. FROM tab FROM db and FROM db.tab are equivalent. If no database is specified, the query assumes the current database as database. The optional keyword EXTENDED currently has no effect, and exists for MySQL compatibility. The statement produces a result table with the following structure:

Column	Description	Type
`table`	The name of the table.	`String`
`non_unique`	Always `1` as ClickHouse does not support uniqueness constraints.	`UInt8`
`key_name`	The name of the index, `PRIMARY` if the index is a primary key index.	`String`
`seq_in_index`	For a primary key index, the position of the column starting from `1`. For a data skipping index: always `1`.	`UInt8`
`column_name`	For a primary key index, the name of the column. For a data skipping index: `''` (empty string), see field “expression”.	`String`
`collation`	The sorting of the column in the index: `A` if ascending, `D` if descending, `NULL` if unsorted.	`Nullable(String)`
`cardinality`	An estimation of the index cardinality (number of unique values in the index). Currently always 0.	`UInt64`
`sub_part`	Always `NULL` because ClickHouse does not support index prefixes like MySQL.	`Nullable(String)`
`packed`	Always `NULL` because ClickHouse does not support packed indexes (like MySQL).	`Nullable(String)`
`null`	Currently unused
`index_type`	The index type, e.g. `PRIMARY`, `MINMAX`, `BLOOM_FILTER` etc.	`String`
`comment`	Additional information about the index, currently always `''` (empty string).	`String`
`index_comment`	`''` (empty string) because indexes in ClickHouse cannot have a `COMMENT` field (like in MySQL).	`String`
`visible`	If the index is visible to the optimizer, always `YES`.	`String`
`expression`	For a data skipping index, the index expression. For a primary key index: `''` (empty string).	`String`

Examples

In this example we use the SHOW INDEX statement to get information about all indexes in table ‘tbl’

Query

SHOW INDEX FROM 'tbl'

Response

┌─table─┬─non_unique─┬─key_name─┬─seq_in_index─┬─column_name─┬─collation─┬─cardinality─┬─sub_part─┬─packed─┬─null─┬─index_type───┬─comment─┬─index_comment─┬─visible─┬─expression─┐
│ tbl   │          1 │ blf_idx  │ 1            │ 1           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ 0           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ   │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ BLOOM_FILTER │         │               │ YES     │ d, b       │
│ tbl   │          1 │ mm1_idx  │ 1            │ 1           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ 0           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ   │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ MINMAX       │         │               │ YES     │ a, c, d    │
│ tbl   │          1 │ mm2_idx  │ 1            │ 1           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ 0           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ   │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ MINMAX       │         │               │ YES     │ c, d, e    │
│ tbl   │          1 │ PRIMARY  │ 1            │ c           │ A         │ 0           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ   │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ PRIMARY      │         │               │ YES     │            │
│ tbl   │          1 │ PRIMARY  │ 2            │ a           │ A         │ 0           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ   │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ PRIMARY      │         │               │ YES     │            │
│ tbl   │          1 │ set_idx  │ 1            │ 1           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ 0           │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ   │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ SET          │         │               │ YES     │ e          │
└───────┴────────────┴──────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┴─────────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴──────────────┴─────────┴───────────────┴─────────┴────────────┘

SHOW PROCESSLIST

Outputs the content of the system.processes table, that contains a list of queries that are being processed at the moment, excluding SHOW PROCESSLIST queries.

Syntax

SHOW PROCESSLIST [INTO OUTFILE filename] [FORMAT format]

The SELECT * FROM system.processes query returns data about all the current queries.

Execute in the console:

$ watch -n1 "clickhouse-client --query='SHOW PROCESSLIST'"

SHOW GRANTS

The SHOW GRANTS statement shows privileges for a user.

Syntax

SHOW GRANTS [FOR user1 [, user2 ...]] [WITH IMPLICIT] [FINAL]

If the user is not specified, the query returns privileges for the current user. The WITH IMPLICIT modifier allows showing the implicit grants (e.g., GRANT SELECT ON system.one) The FINAL modifier merges all grants from the user and its granted roles (with inheritance)

SHOW CREATE USER

The SHOW CREATE USER statement shows parameters which were used at user creation.

Syntax

SHOW CREATE USER [name1 [, name2 ...] | CURRENT_USER]

SHOW CREATE ROLE

The SHOW CREATE ROLE statement shows parameters which were used at role creation.

Syntax

SHOW CREATE ROLE name1 [, name2 ...]

SHOW CREATE ROW POLICY

The SHOW CREATE ROW POLICY statement shows parameters which were used at row policy creation.

Syntax

SHOW CREATE [ROW] POLICY name ON [database1.]table1 [, [database2.]table2 ...]

SHOW CREATE QUOTA

The SHOW CREATE QUOTA statement shows parameters which were used at quota creation.

Syntax

SHOW CREATE QUOTA [name1 [, name2 ...] | CURRENT]

SHOW CREATE SETTINGS PROFILE

The SHOW CREATE SETTINGS PROFILE statement shows parameters which were used at settings profile creation.

Syntax

SHOW CREATE [SETTINGS] PROFILE name1 [, name2 ...]

SHOW USERS

The SHOW USERS statement returns a list of user account names. To view user accounts parameters, see the system table system.users.

Syntax

SHOW USERS

SHOW ROLES

The SHOW ROLES statement returns a list of roles. To view other parameters, see system tables system.roles and system.role_grants.

Syntax

SHOW [CURRENT|ENABLED] ROLES

SHOW PROFILES

The SHOW PROFILES statement returns a list of setting profiles. To view user accounts parameters, see system table settings_profiles.

Syntax

SHOW [SETTINGS] PROFILES

SHOW POLICIES

The SHOW POLICIES statement returns a list of row policies for the specified table. To view user accounts parameters, see system table system.row_policies.

Syntax

SHOW [ROW] POLICIES [ON [db.]table]

SHOW QUOTAS

The SHOW QUOTAS statement returns a list of quotas. To view quotas parameters, see the system table system.quotas.

Syntax

SHOW QUOTAS

SHOW QUOTA

The SHOW QUOTA statement returns a quota consumption for all users or for current user. To view other parameters, see system tables system.quotas_usage and system.quota_usage.

Syntax

SHOW [CURRENT] QUOTA

SHOW ACCESS

The SHOW ACCESS statement shows all users, roles, profiles, etc. and all their grants.

Syntax

SHOW ACCESS

SHOW CLUSTER(S)

The SHOW CLUSTER(S) statement returns a list of clusters. All available clusters are listed in the system.clusters table.

The SHOW CLUSTER name query displays cluster, shard_num, replica_num, host_name, host_address, and port of the system.clusters table for the specified cluster name.

Syntax

SHOW CLUSTER '<name>'
SHOW CLUSTERS [[NOT] LIKE|ILIKE '<pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>]

Examples

Query

SHOW CLUSTERS;

Response

┌─cluster──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ test_cluster_two_shards                      │
│ test_cluster_two_shards_internal_replication │
│ test_cluster_two_shards_localhost            │
│ test_shard_localhost                         │
│ test_shard_localhost_secure                  │
│ test_unavailable_shard                       │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Query

SHOW CLUSTERS LIKE 'test%' LIMIT 1;

Response

┌─cluster─────────────────┐
│ test_cluster_two_shards │
└─────────────────────────┘

Query

SHOW CLUSTER 'test_shard_localhost' FORMAT Vertical;

Response

Row 1:
──────
cluster:                 test_shard_localhost
shard_num:               1
replica_num:             1
host_name:               localhost
host_address:            127.0.0.1
port:                    9000

SHOW SETTINGS

The SHOW SETTINGS statement returns a list of system settings and their values. It selects data from the system.settings table.

Syntax

SHOW [CHANGED] SETTINGS LIKE|ILIKE <name>

Clauses

LIKE|ILIKE allow to specify a matching pattern for the setting name. It can contain globs such as % or _. LIKE clause is case-sensitive, ILIKE — case insensitive. When the CHANGED clause is used, the query returns only settings changed from their default values.

Examples

Query with the LIKE clause:

Query

SHOW SETTINGS LIKE 'send_timeout';

Response

┌─name─────────┬─type────┬─value─┐
│ send_timeout │ Seconds │ 300   │
└──────────────┴─────────┴───────┘

Query with the ILIKE clause:

Query

SHOW SETTINGS ILIKE '%CONNECT_timeout%'

Response

┌─name────────────────────────────────────┬─type─────────┬─value─┐
│ connect_timeout                         │ Seconds      │ 10    │
│ connect_timeout_with_failover_ms        │ Milliseconds │ 50    │
│ connect_timeout_with_failover_secure_ms │ Milliseconds │ 100   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┴───────┘

Query with the CHANGED clause:

Query

SHOW CHANGED SETTINGS ILIKE '%MEMORY%'

Response

┌─name─────────────┬─type───┬─value───────┐
│ max_memory_usage │ UInt64 │ 10000000000 │
└──────────────────┴────────┴─────────────┘

SHOW SETTING

The SHOW SETTING statement outputs setting value for specified setting name.

Syntax

SHOW SETTING <name>

SHOW FILESYSTEM CACHES

Examples

Query

SHOW FILESYSTEM CACHES

Response

┌─Caches────┐
│ s3_cache  │
└───────────┘

SHOW ENGINES

The SHOW ENGINES statement outputs the content of the system.table_engines table, that contains description of table engines supported by server and their feature support information.

Syntax

SHOW ENGINES [INTO OUTFILE filename] [FORMAT format]

SHOW FUNCTIONS

The SHOW FUNCTIONS statement outputs the content of the system.functions table.

Syntax

SHOW FUNCTIONS [LIKE | ILIKE '<pattern>']

If either LIKE or ILIKE clause is specified, the query returns a list of system functions whose names match the provided <pattern>.

SHOW MERGES

The SHOW MERGES statement returns a list of merges. All merges are listed in the system.merges table:

Column	Description
`table`	Table name.
`database`	The name of the database the table is in.
`estimate_complete`	The estimated time to complete (in seconds).
`elapsed`	The time elapsed (in seconds) since the merge started.
`progress`	The percentage of completed work (0-100 percent).
`is_mutation`	1 if this process is a part mutation.
`size_compressed`	The total size of the compressed data of the merged parts.
`memory_usage`	Memory consumption of the merge process.

Syntax

SHOW MERGES [[NOT] LIKE|ILIKE '<table_name_pattern>'] [LIMIT <N>]

Examples

Query

SHOW MERGES;

Response

┌─table──────┬─database─┬─estimate_complete─┬─elapsed─┬─progress─┬─is_mutation─┬─size_compressed─┬─memory_usage─┐
│ your_table │ default  │              0.14 │    0.36 │    73.01 │           0 │        5.40 MiB │    10.25 MiB │
└────────────┴──────────┴───────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────┘

Query

SHOW MERGES LIKE 'your_t%' LIMIT 1;

Response

┌─table──────┬─database─┬─estimate_complete─┬─elapsed─┬─progress─┬─is_mutation─┬─size_compressed─┬─memory_usage─┐
│ your_table │ default  │              0.14 │    0.36 │    73.01 │           0 │        5.40 MiB │    10.25 MiB │
└────────────┴──────────┴───────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────┘

SHOW CREATE MASKING POLICY

The SHOW CREATE MASKING POLICY statement shows parameters which were used at masking policy creation.

Syntax

SHOW CREATE MASKING POLICY name ON [database.]table

SQL Reference

Documentation Index

​SHOW CREATE TABLE | DICTIONARY | VIEW | DATABASE

​Syntax

​SHOW DATABASES

​Syntax

​Examples

​See also

​SHOW TABLES

​Syntax

​Examples

​See also

​SHOW COLUMNS

​Syntax

​Examples

​See also

​SHOW DICTIONARIES

​Syntax

​Examples

​SHOW INDEX

​Syntax

​Examples

​See also

​SHOW PROCESSLIST

​Syntax

​SHOW GRANTS

​Syntax

​SHOW CREATE USER

​Syntax

​SHOW CREATE ROLE

​Syntax

​SHOW CREATE ROW POLICY

​Syntax

​SHOW CREATE QUOTA

​Syntax

​SHOW CREATE SETTINGS PROFILE

​Syntax

​SHOW USERS

​Syntax

​SHOW ROLES

​Syntax

​SHOW PROFILES

​Syntax

​SHOW POLICIES

​Syntax

​SHOW QUOTAS

​Syntax

​SHOW QUOTA

​Syntax

​SHOW ACCESS

​Syntax

​SHOW CLUSTER(S)

​Syntax

​Examples

​SHOW SETTINGS

​Syntax

​Clauses

​Examples

​SHOW SETTING

​Syntax

​See also

​SHOW FILESYSTEM CACHES

​Examples

​See also

​SHOW ENGINES

​Syntax

​See also

​SHOW FUNCTIONS

​Syntax

​See Also

​SHOW MERGES

​Syntax

​Examples

​SHOW CREATE MASKING POLICY

​Syntax

SHOW CREATE TABLE | DICTIONARY | VIEW | DATABASE

Syntax

SHOW DATABASES

Syntax

Examples

See also

SHOW TABLES

Syntax

Examples

See also

SHOW COLUMNS

Syntax

Examples

See also

SHOW DICTIONARIES

Syntax

Examples

SHOW INDEX

Syntax

Examples

See also

SHOW PROCESSLIST

Syntax

SHOW GRANTS

Syntax

SHOW CREATE USER

Syntax

SHOW CREATE ROLE

Syntax

SHOW CREATE ROW POLICY

Syntax

SHOW CREATE QUOTA

Syntax

SHOW CREATE SETTINGS PROFILE

Syntax

SHOW USERS

Syntax

SHOW ROLES

Syntax

SHOW PROFILES

Syntax

SHOW POLICIES

Syntax

SHOW QUOTAS

Syntax

SHOW QUOTA

Syntax

SHOW ACCESS

Syntax

SHOW CLUSTER(S)

Syntax

Examples

SHOW SETTINGS

Syntax

Clauses

Examples

SHOW SETTING

Syntax

See also

SHOW FILESYSTEM CACHES

Examples

See also

SHOW ENGINES

Syntax

See also

SHOW FUNCTIONS

Syntax

See Also

SHOW MERGES

Syntax

Examples

SHOW CREATE MASKING POLICY

Syntax