DESCRIBE STORAGE CREDENTIAL

Applies to: check marked yes Databricks SQL check marked yes Databricks Runtime 10.3 and above check marked yes Unity Catalog only

Returns the metadata of an existing storage credential. The metadata information includes credential name, comment, owner and other metadata.

You must be account or metastore admin to execute this command.

Syntax 

DESCRIBE STORAGE CREDENTIAL credential_name

Parameters

  • credential_name

    The name of an existing storage credential in the metastore. If the name does not exist, an exception is thrown.

Examples 

> DESCRIBE CREDENTIAL good_cred;
  name      owner  created_at               created_by   credential
  --------- ------ ------------------------ ------------ ---------------------------------------------
  good_cred admins 2022-01-01T08:00:00.0000 jane@doe.com AwsIamRole:arn:aws:iam:123456789012:roe/us....