Lists the event tables for which you have access privileges, including dropped tables that are still within the Time Travel retention period and, therefore, can be undropped. The command can be used to list event tables for the current/specified database or schema, or across your entire account.
The output returns table metadata and properties, ordered lexicographically by database, schema, and event table name (see Output in this topic for descriptions of the output columns). This is important to note if you wish to filter the results using the provided filters.
CREATE EVENT TABLE, ALTER TABLE (event tables), DROP TABLE, UNDROP TABLE
TABLES view (Information Schema)
SHOW [ TERSE ] EVENT TABLES [ LIKE '<pattern>' ]
[ IN { ACCOUNT | DATABASE [ <db_name> ] | SCHEMA [ <schema_name> ] } ]
[ STARTS WITH '<name_string>' ]
[ LIMIT <rows> [ FROM '<name_string>' ] ]
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Parameters¶TERSE
Optionally returns only a subset of the output columns:
created_on
name
database_name
schema_name
Default: No value (all columns are included in the output)
LIKE 'pattern'
Optionally filters the command output by object name. The filter uses case-insensitive pattern matching, with support for SQL wildcard characters (% and _).
For example, the following patterns return the same results:
... LIKE '%testing%' ...
... LIKE '%TESTING%' ...
. Default: No value (no filtering is applied to the output).
IN ACCOUNT | DATABASE [ db_name ] | SCHEMA [ schema_name ]
Optionally specifies the scope of the command, which determines whether the command lists records only for the current/specified database or schema, or across your entire account.
If you specify the keyword ACCOUNT, then the command retrieves records for all schemas in all databases of the current account.
If you specify the keyword DATABASE, then:
If you specify a db_name, then the command retrieves records for all schemas of the specified database.
If you do not specify a db_name, then:
If there is a current database, then the command retrieves records for all schemas in the current database.
If there is no current database, then the command retrieves records for all databases and schemas in the account.
If you specify the keyword SCHEMA, then:
If you specify a qualified schema name (e.g. my_database.my_schema), then the command retrieves records for the specified database and schema.
If you specify an unqualified schema_name, then:
If there is a current database, then the command retrieves records for the specified schema in the current database.
If there is no current database, then the command displays the error SQL compilation error: Object does not exist, or operation cannot be performed.
If you do not specify a schema_name, then:
If there is a current database, then:
If there is a current schema, then the command retrieves records for the current schema in the current database.
If there is no current schema, then the command retrieves records for all schemas in the current database.
If there is no current database, then the command retrieves records for all databases and all schemas in the account.
Default: Depends on whether the session currently has a database in use:
Database: DATABASE is the default (i.e. the command returns the objects you have privileges to view in the current database).
No database: ACCOUNT is the default (i.e. the command returns the objects you have privileges to view in your account).
STARTS WITH 'name_string'
Optionally filters the command output based on the characters that appear at the beginning of the object name. The string must be enclosed in single quotes and is case sensitive.
For example, the following strings return different results:
... STARTS WITH 'B' ...
... STARTS WITH 'b' ...
. Default: No value (no filtering is applied to the output)
LIMIT rows [ FROM 'name_string' ]
Optionally limits the maximum number of rows returned, while also enabling “pagination” of the results. The actual number of rows returned might be less than the specified limit. For example, the number of existing objects is less than the specified limit.
The optional FROM 'name_string' subclause effectively serves as a “cursor” for the results. This enables fetching the specified number of rows following the first row whose object name matches the specified string:
The string must be enclosed in single quotes and is case sensitive.
The string does not have to include the full object name; partial names are supported.
Default: No value (no limit is applied to the output)
Note
For SHOW commands that support both the FROM 'name_string' and STARTS WITH 'name_string' clauses, you can combine both of these clauses in the same statement. However, both conditions must be met or they cancel out each other and no results are returned.
In addition, objects are returned in lexicographic order by name, so FROM 'name_string' only returns rows with a higher lexicographic value than the rows returned by STARTS WITH 'name_string'.
For example:
... STARTS WITH 'A' LIMIT ... FROM 'B' would return no results.
... STARTS WITH 'B' LIMIT ... FROM 'A' would return no results.
... STARTS WITH 'A' LIMIT ... FROM 'AB' would return results (if any rows match the input strings).
The command output provides table properties and metadata in the following columns:
Column
Description
created_on
Date and time when the event table was created.
name
Name of the event table.
database_name
Database in which the event table is stored.
schema_name
Schema in which the event table is stored.
owner
Role that owns the event table.
comment
Comment for the event table.
owner_role_type
The type of role that owns the object, for example ROLE. . If a Snowflake Native App owns the object, the value is APPLICATION. . Snowflake returns NULL if you delete the object because a deleted object does not have an owner role.
For more information about the properties that can be specified for an event table, see CREATE EVENT TABLE.
Usage notes¶If an account (or database or schema) has a large number of event tables, then searching the entire account (or table or schema) can consume a significant amount of compute resources.
The command doesn’t require a running warehouse to execute.
The command only returns objects for which the current user’s current role has been granted at least one access privilege.
The MANAGE GRANTS access privilege implicitly allows its holder to see every object in the account. By default, only the account administrator (users with the ACCOUNTADMIN role) and security administrator (users with the SECURITYADMIN role) have the MANAGE GRANTS privilege.
To post-process the output of this command, you can use the pipe operator (->>) or the RESULT_SCAN function. Both constructs treat the output as a result set that you can query.
The output column names for this command are generated in lowercase. If you consume a result set from this command with the pipe operator or the RESULT_SCAN function, use double-quoted identifiers for the column names in the query to ensure that they match the column names in the output that was scanned. For example, if the name of an output column is type, then specify "type" for the identifier.
The value for LIMIT rows can’t exceed 10000. If LIMIT rows is omitted, the command results in an error if the result set is larger than ten thousand rows.
To view results for which more than ten thousand records exist, either include LIMIT rows or query the corresponding view in the Snowflake Information Schema.
Show all the event tables whose name starts with mylogs that you have privileges to view in the tpch.public schema:
SHOW EVENT TABLES LIKE 'mylogs%' IN tpch.public;Copy
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