---
title: SHOW Statement for Metadata
sidebar_label: SHOW Statement
description: This document describes how to use the SHOW statement in TDengine.
---

`SHOW` command can be used to get brief system information. To get details about metadata, information, and status in the system, please use `select` to query the tables in database `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`. 

## SHOW APPS

```sql
SHOW APPS;
```

Shows all clients (such as applications) that connect to the cluster.

## SHOW CLUSTER

```sql
SHOW CLUSTER;
```

Shows information about the current cluster.

## SHOW CONNECTIONS

```sql
SHOW CONNECTIONS;
```

Shows information about connections to the system.

## SHOW CONSUMERS

```sql
SHOW CONSUMERS;
```

Shows information about all active consumers in the system.

## SHOW CREATE DATABASE

```sql
SHOW CREATE DATABASE db_name;
```

Shows the SQL statement used to create the specified database.

## SHOW CREATE STABLE

```sql
SHOW CREATE STABLE [db_name.]stb_name;
```

Shows the SQL statement used to create the specified supertable.

## SHOW CREATE TABLE

```sql
SHOW CREATE TABLE [db_name.]tb_name
```

Shows the SQL statement used to create the specified table. This statement can be used on supertables, standard tables, and subtables.

## SHOW DATABASES

```sql
SHOW DATABASES;
```

Shows all user-created databases.

## SHOW DNODES

```sql
SHOW DNODES;
```

Shows all dnodes in the system.

## SHOW FUNCTIONS

```sql
SHOW FUNCTIONS;
```

Shows all user-defined functions in the system.

## SHOW LICENCES

```sql
SHOW LICENCES;
SHOW GRANTS;
```

Shows information about the TDengine Enterprise Edition license.

Note: TDengine Enterprise Edition only.

## SHOW INDEXES

```sql
SHOW INDEXES FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name];
```

Shows indices that have been created.

## SHOW LOCAL VARIABLES

```sql
SHOW LOCAL VARIABLES;
```

Shows the working configuration of the client.

## SHOW MNODES

```sql
SHOW MNODES;
```

Shows information about mnodes in the system.

## SHOW QNODES

```sql
SHOW QNODES;
```

Shows information about qnodes in the system.

## SHOW SCORES

```sql
SHOW SCORES;
```

Shows information about the storage space allowed by the license.

Note: TDengine Enterprise Edition only.

## SHOW STABLES

```sql
SHOW [db_name.]STABLES [LIKE 'pattern'];
```

Shows all supertables in the current database. You can use LIKE for fuzzy matching.

## SHOW STREAMS

```sql
SHOW STREAMS;
```

Shows information about streams in the system.

## SHOW SUBSCRIPTIONS

```sql
SHOW SUBSCRIPTIONS;
```

Shows all subscriptions in the system.

## SHOW TABLES

```sql
SHOW [db_name.]TABLES [LIKE 'pattern'];
```

Shows all standard tables and subtables in the current database. You can use LIKE for fuzzy matching.

## SHOW TABLE DISTRIBUTED

```sql
SHOW TABLE DISTRIBUTED table_name;
```

Shows how table data is distributed.

Examples： Below is an example of this command to display the block distribution of table `d0` in detailed format.

```sql
show table distributed d0\G;   
```

<details>
 <summary> Show Example </summary>
 <pre><code>
*************************** 1.row ***************************
_block_dist: Total_Blocks=[5] Total_Size=[93.65 Kb] Average_size=[18.73 Kb] Compression_Ratio=[23.98 %]

Total_Blocks :  Table `d0` contains total 5 blocks

Total_Size:  The total size of all the data blocks in table `d0` is 93.65 KB 

Average_size:  The average size of each block is 18.73 KB

Compression_Ratio: The data compression rate is 23.98%
 
*************************** 2.row ***************************
_block_dist: Total_Rows=[20000] Inmem_Rows=[0] MinRows=[3616] MaxRows=[4096] Average_Rows=[4000]

Total_Rows: Table `d0` contains 20,000 rows

Inmem_Rows： The rows still in memory, i.e. not committed in disk, is 0, i.e. none such rows

MinRows：  The minimum number of rows in a block is 3,616 

MaxRows： The maximum number of rows in a block is 4,096B

Average_Rows： The average number of rows in a block is 4,000

*************************** 3.row ***************************
_block_dist: Total_Tables=[1] Total_Files=[2]

Total_Tables:  The number of child tables, 1 in this example

Total_Files：   The number of files storing the table's data, 2 in this example

*************************** 4.row ***************************

_block_dist: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*************************** 5.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0100 |

*************************** 6.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0299 |

*************************** 7.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0498 |

*************************** 8.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0697 |

*************************** 9.row ***************************

_block_dist: 0896 |

*************************** 10.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1095 |

*************************** 11.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1294 |

*************************** 12.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1493 |

*************************** 13.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1692 |

*************************** 14.row ***************************

_block_dist: 1891 |

*************************** 15.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2090 |

*************************** 16.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2289 |

*************************** 17.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2488 |

*************************** 18.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2687 |

*************************** 19.row ***************************

_block_dist: 2886 |

*************************** 20.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3085 |

*************************** 21.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3284 |

*************************** 22.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3483 |||||||||||||||||  1 (20.00%)

*************************** 23.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3682 |

*************************** 24.row ***************************

_block_dist: 3881 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  4 (80.00%)

Query OK, 24 row(s) in set (0.002444s)

</code></pre>
</details>

  The above show the block distribution percentage according to the number of rows in each block. In the above example, we can get below information:
  - `_block_dist: 3483 |||||||||||||||||  1 (20.00%)` means there is one block whose rows is between 3,483 and 3,681.
  -  `_block_dist: 3881 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  4 (80.00%)` means there are 4 blocks whose rows is between 3,881 and 4,096.   -  The number of blocks whose rows fall in other range is zero.

## SHOW TAGS

```sql
SHOW TAGS FROM child_table_name [FROM db_name];
```

Shows all tag information in a subtable.

## SHOW TOPICS

```sql
SHOW TOPICS;
```

Shows all topics in the current database.

## SHOW TRANSACTIONS

```sql
SHOW TRANSACTIONS;
```

Shows all running transactions in the system.

## SHOW USERS

```sql
SHOW USERS;
```

Shows information about users on the system. This includes user-created users and system-defined users.

## SHOW VARIABLES

```sql
SHOW VARIABLES;
SHOW DNODE dnode_id VARIABLES;
```

Shows the working configuration of the parameters that must be the same on each node. You can also specify a dnode to show the working configuration for that node. 

## SHOW VGROUPS

```sql
SHOW [db_name.]VGROUPS;
```

Shows information about all vgroups in the current database. 

## SHOW VNODES

```sql
SHOW VNODES {dnode_id | dnode_endpoint};
```

Shows information about all vnodes in the system or about the vnodes for a specified dnode.
