Use Tablestore SDK for Node.js to query information about a table-Tablestore(Tablestore)-阿里云帮助中心

You can execute the DESCRIBE statement to query information about a table, such as the field names and field types.

Note

For more information about the DESCRIBE statement, see Query information about tables.

Prerequisites

A Tablestore client is initialized. For more information, see Initialize a Tablestore client.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
query	The SQL statement. Configure this parameter based on the required feature.

Examples

The following sample code provides an example on how to execute the describe test_table statement to query the information about test_table:

const params = {
  query: "describe test_table",
}

client.sqlQuery(params, function (err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('sqlQuery error:', err.toString());
  } else {
    console.log('sqlQuery success:', data);
  }
});

References

To use a mapping table to query data that meets specific conditions, execute the SELECT statement. For more information, see Query data.
To update the attribute column of a mapping table after an attribute column of the data table is changed, execute the ALTER TABLE statement. For more information, see Update attribute columns of a mapping table.
To delete a mapping table, execute the DROP MAPPING TABLE statement. For more information, see Delete mapping tables.