List databases and searching a specified database - Amazon Athena

List databases and searching a specified database

The examples in this section show how to list the databases in metadata by schema name.

Example – Listing databases

The following example query lists the databases from the information_schema.schemata table.

SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata LIMIT 10;

The following table shows sample results.

6 alb-databas1
7 alb_original_cust
8 alblogsdatabase
9 athena_db_test
10 athena_ddl_db
Example – Searching a specified database

In the following example query, rdspostgresql is a sample database.

SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata WHERE schema_name = 'rdspostgresql'

The following table shows sample results.

schema_name
1 rdspostgresql