1.5.2 Ted. Those two lines I don't know where they come. It finds and gets the table info OK HTH
On Friday, 25 March 2016, 22:32, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: Which release of Spark do you use, Mich ? In master branch, the message is more accurate (sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/NoSuchItemException.scala): override def getMessage: String = s"Table $table not found in database $db" On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com> wrote: You can use DESCRIBE FORMATTED <DATABASE>.<TABLE_NAME> to get that info. This is based on the same command in Hive however, it throws two erroneous error lines as shown below (don't see them in Hive DESCRIBE ...) Example scala> sql("describe formatted test.t14").collect.foreach(println) 16/03/25 22:32:38 ERROR Hive: Table test not found: test.test table not found 16/03/25 22:32:38 ERROR Hive: Table test not found: test.test table not found [# col_name data_type comment ] [ ] [invoicenumber int ] [paymentdate date ] [net decimal(20,2) ] [vat decimal(20,2) ] [total decimal(20,2) ] [ ] [# Detailed Table Information ] [Database: test ] [Owner: hduser ] [CreateTime: Fri Mar 25 22:13:44 GMT 2016 ] [LastAccessTime: UNKNOWN ] [Protect Mode: None ] [Retention: 0 ] [Location: hdfs://rhes564:9000/user/hive/warehouse/test.db/t14 ] [Table Type: MANAGED_TABLE ] [Table Parameters: ] [ COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE {\"BASIC_STATS\":\"true\"}] [ comment from csv file from excel sheet] [ numFiles 2 ] [ orc.compress ZLIB ] [ totalSize 1090 ] [ transient_lastDdlTime 1458944025 ] [ ] [# Storage Information ] [SerDe Library: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde ] [InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat ] [OutputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcOutputFormat ] [Compressed: No ] [Num Buckets: -1 ] [Bucket Columns: [] ] [Sort Columns: [] ] [Storage Desc Params: ] [ serialization.format 1 ] HTH Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com On 25 March 2016 at 22:12, Ashok Kumar <ashok34...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: Experts, I would like to know when a table was created in Hive database using Spark shell? Thanks