[role="xpack"]
[testenv="basic"]
[[sql-syntax-describe-table]]
=== DESCRIBE TABLE

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.Synopsis
[source, sql]
----
DESCRIBE [table identifier<1> | [LIKE pattern<2>]]
----

<1> single table identifier or double quoted es multi index
<2> SQL LIKE pattern

or 

[source, sql]
----
DESC [table identifier<1>|[LIKE pattern<2>]]
----

<1> single table identifier or double quoted es multi index
<2> SQL LIKE pattern

.Description

`DESC` and `DESCRIBE` are aliases to <<sql-syntax-show-columns>>.

["source","sql",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
----
include-tagged::{sql-specs}/docs.csv-spec[describeTable]
----