dbShow {noctua}

Show Athena table's DDL

Description

Executes a statement to return the data description language (DDL) of the Athena table.

Usage

dbShow(conn, name, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'AthenaConnection'
dbShow(conn, name, ...)

Arguments

conn

A DBIConnection object, as returned by dbConnect().

name

The table name, passed on to dbQuoteIdentifier(). Options are:

• a character string with the unquoted DBMS table name, e.g. "table_name",

• a call to Id() with components to the fully qualified table name, e.g. Id(schema = "my_schema", table = "table_name")

• a call to SQL() with the quoted and fully qualified table name given verbatim, e.g. SQL('"my_schema"."table_name"')

...

Other parameters passed on to methods.

Value

dbShow() returns SQL characters of the Athena table DDL.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Note:
# - Require AWS Account to run below example.
# - Different connection methods can be used please see `noctua::dbConnect` documnentation

library(DBI)

# Demo connection to Athena using profile name
con <- dbConnect(noctua::athena())

# write iris table to Athena
dbWriteTable(con, "iris",
  iris,
  partition = c("timestamp" = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y%m%d")),
  s3.location = "s3://path/to/store/athena/table/"
)

# return table ddl
noctua::dbShow(con, "iris")

# disconnect from Athena
dbDisconnect(con)

## End(Not run)