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DESCRIBE statements - Amazon Timestream

DESCRIBE statements

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You can view the metadata for a table by using the DESCRIBE statement. The syntax is as follows:

DESCRIBE database.table

where table contains the table name. The describe statement returns the column names and data types for the table.

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