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List databases and searching a specified database - Amazon Athena

List databases and searching a specified database

The examples in this section show how to list the databases in metadata by schema name.

Example– Listing databases

The following example query lists the databases from the information_schema.schemata table.

SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata LIMIT 10;

The following table shows sample results.

6 alb-databas1
7 alb_original_cust
8 alblogsdatabase
9 athena_db_test
10 athena_ddl_db
Example– Searching a specified database

In the following example query, rdspostgresql is a sample database.

SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata WHERE schema_name = 'rdspostgresql'

The following table shows sample results.

schema_name
1 rdspostgresql