SHOW Syntax
SHOW COLUMNS Syntax
SHOW CREATE TABLE Syntax
SHOW TABLE STATUS Syntax
SHOW TABLES Syntax
SHOW DATABASES
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SHOW INDEX FROM
SHOW VARIABLES Syntax

DESC Syntax
USE Syntax
EXPLAIN Syntax
Unlike EXPLAIN in MySQL, the output of DDM EXPLAIN describes the nodes that the current SQL statement is routed to.

**Table 1** Restrictions on database management statements
Item	Restriction
Database management statements	Executing SET Syntax to modify global variables is not supported. SHOW TRIGGERS is not supported. The following SHOW statements are randomly sent to a database shard. If database shards are on different RDS for MySQL instances, the returned variables or table information may be different. SHOW TABLE STATUS SHOW VARIABLES Syntax CHECK TABLE does not support sharding tables by hash or sharding key. SHOW WARNINGS Syntax does not support the combination of LIMIT and COUNT. SHOW ERRORS Syntax does not support the combination of LIMIT and COUNT.