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



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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
>

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