Using Lineage to Display Table Schema

Required Role: Metadata & Lineage Viewer (or Managed & Custom Metadata Editor, or Full Administrator)

A table schema contains information about the names and types of the columns of a table.

Displaying Hive, Impala, and Sqoop Table Schema

  1. Use the Cloudera Navigator console to search for entities of source type Hive and type Table.
  2. In the list of results, click a result entry. The table schema displays in the Details tab.

Displaying Pig Table Schema

  1. Use the Cloudera Navigator console to search for entities of source type Pig.
  2. In the list of results, click a result entry of type Table. The table schema displays in the Details tab.