DESCRIBE WAREHOUSE

Describes a virtual warehouse. For example, shows the date that the warehouse was created.

You can abbreviate DESCRIBE to DESC.

See also:

ALTER WAREHOUSE , CREATE WAREHOUSE, DROP WAREHOUSE , SHOW WAREHOUSES

Syntax

DESC[RIBE] WAREHOUSE <name>
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Parameters

name

Specifies the identifier of the warehouse to describe.

Usage notes

  • To post-process the output of this command, you can use the pipe operator (->>) or the RESULT_SCAN function. Both constructs treat the output as a result set that you can query.

    The output column names for this command are generated in lowercase. If you consume a result set from this command with the pipe operator or the RESULT_SCAN function, use double-quoted identifiers for the column names in the query to ensure that they match the column names in the output that was scanned. For example, if the name of an output column is type, then specify "type" for the identifier.

Examples

This demonstrates the DESCRIBE WAREHOUSE command:

CREATE WAREHOUSE temporary_warehouse WAREHOUSE_SIZE=XSMALL;
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DESCRIBE WAREHOUSE temporary_warehouse;
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+-------------------------------+---------------------+-----------+
| created_on                    | name                | kind      |
|-------------------------------+---------------------+-----------|
| 2022-06-23 00:00:00.000 -0700 | TEMPORARY_WAREHOUSE | WAREHOUSE |
+-------------------------------+---------------------+-----------+
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