GetDatabase - AWS Glue

GetDatabase

Retrieves the definition of a specified database.

Request Syntax

{ "CatalogId": "string", "Name": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CatalogId

The ID of the Data Catalog in which the database resides. If none is provided, the AWS account ID is used by default.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

Name

The name of the database to retrieve. For Hive compatibility, this should be all lowercase.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "Database": { "CatalogId": "string", "CreateTableDefaultPermissions": [ { "Permissions": [ "string" ], "Principal": { "DataLakePrincipalIdentifier": "string" } } ], "CreateTime": number, "Description": "string", "FederatedDatabase": { "ConnectionName": "string", "Identifier": "string" }, "LocationUri": "string", "Name": "string", "Parameters": { "string" : "string" }, "TargetDatabase": { "CatalogId": "string", "DatabaseName": "string", "Region": "string" } } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Database

The definition of the specified database in the Data Catalog.

Type: Database object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

EntityNotFoundException

A specified entity does not exist

HTTP Status Code: 400

FederationSourceException

A federation source failed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

GlueEncryptionException

An encryption operation failed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServiceException

An internal service error occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidInputException

The input provided was not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationTimeoutException

The operation timed out.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: