HELP DATABASE SQL Statement | Teradata Vantage - HELP DATABASE - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-11-22
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Teradata Vantageā„¢

Displays the attributes, sorted by object name, for all tables, views, join indexes, hash indexes, SQL procedures, user-defined functions, and macros contained by a specified database.

ANSI Compliance

This statement is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL:2011 standard.

Required Privileges

You must either own the database or have at least one privilege on that database.

Use the SHOW privilege to enable a user to perform HELP or SHOW requests only against a specified database.