DESCRIBE statements - Amazon Timestream
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics will no longer be open to new customers starting June 20, 2025. If you would like to use Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics, sign up prior to that date. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics availability change.

DESCRIBE statements

You can view the metadata for a table by using the DESCRIBE statement. The syntax is as follows:

DESCRIBE database.table

where table contains the table name. The describe statement returns the column names and data types for the table.