the DESCRIBE family of commands in cqlsh are wrappers around queries to the system keyspace, so if you want to inspect what keyspaces and tables exist from your application you can do something like:
SELECT columnfamily_name, comment FROM system.schema_columnfamilies WHERE keyspace_name = 'test'; or SELECT * FROM system.schema_keyspaces; T# On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Brian O'Neill <b...@alumni.brown.edu>wrote: > > cqlsh> use keyspace; > cqlsh:cirrus> describe tables; > > For more info: > cqlsh> help describe > > -brian > > > --- > Brian O'Neill > Lead Architect, Software Development > Health Market Science > The Science of Better Results > 2700 Horizon Drive € King of Prussia, PA € 19406 > M: 215.588.6024 € @boneill42 <http://www.twitter.com/boneill42> € > healthmarketscience.com > > This information transmitted in this email message is for the intended > recipient only and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If > you received this email in error and are not the intended recipient, or > the person responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, please > contact the sender at the email above and delete this email and any > attachments and destroy any copies thereof. Any review, retransmission, > dissemination, copying or other use of, or taking any action in reliance > upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended > recipient is strictly prohibited. > > > > > > > > On 1/28/13 2:27 PM, "Paul van Hoven" <paul.van.ho...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > >Is there some way in cql to get a list of all tables or column > >families that belong to a keystore like "show tables" in sql? > > >
