name : get-table-metadata.rst **To return metadata information about a table** The following ``get-table-metadata`` example returns metadata information about the ``counties`` table, including including column names and their datatypes, from the ``sampledb`` database of the ``AwsDataCatalog`` data catalog. :: aws athena get-table-metadata \ --catalog-name AwsDataCatalog \ --database-name sampledb \ --table-name counties Output:: { "TableMetadata": { "Name": "counties", "CreateTime": 1593559968.0, "LastAccessTime": 0.0, "TableType": "EXTERNAL_TABLE", "Columns": [ { "Name": "name", "Type": "string", "Comment": "from deserializer" }, { "Name": "boundaryshape", "Type": "binary", "Comment": "from deserializer" }, { "Name": "motto", "Type": "string", "Comment": "from deserializer" }, { "Name": "population", "Type": "int", "Comment": "from deserializer" } ], "PartitionKeys": [], "Parameters": { "EXTERNAL": "TRUE", "inputformat": "com.esri.json.hadoop.EnclosedJsonInputFormat", "location": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/json", "outputformat": "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat", "serde.param.serialization.format": "1", "serde.serialization.lib": "com.esri.hadoop.hive.serde.JsonSerde", "transient_lastDdlTime": "1593559968" } } } For more information, see `Showing Table Details: get-table-metadata <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/datastores-hive-cli.html#datastores-hive-cli-showing-details-of-a-table>`__ in the *Amazon Athena User Guide*.